Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-25
1 FROM ALL QUARTERS. ALETTER FROM STANLEY. Facing Danger and Endur-
 ing Pdvation. DR. PETERS PARTY SAFE. An IncendiayFir In Bridge
 port. PERJURY IN THE GROWN CASE. The Contest for Speaker
 ship of the House.
PERJURY IN THE CROWN CASE.
sTANLEY,s TRAVELS.

The PrlvatiOns and Dtscomforts he
 Suffered in the Heart of the Dark
 Continent.
 LONDON, Nov. 24.-Mr. McKinnon, the chairman of the Enin relief committee, has received letter from Stanley. It is dated August, and was written at Kafurro, an Arab settlement on the Karagwe. It begins:
 My last report was sent of by Salim Ben Mohammed in the early part of September, 1888. Over year, full of stirring events, has taken place since then. I will endeavor to inform you what has occurred. Stanley goes on to recount the arrangements made by him to meet Emin, and after describing how he hunted up the missing rear column, con- tinues:
 I have already told you that the rear col umn was in deplorable state that out of the 1O2 members remaining I doubted whether fifty would live to reach the lake; but having collected a large number of canoes the goods and sick men were transported in the vessels in such a smooth and expeditions manner that there were remarkably few casualties in the rem nant of the rear column. But wild natives, having repeatedly defeated the Ugarrow~--g raiders, and by this discovered the e1ter m their own strength gave considerable trot and inflicted considerable loss among
 best men, who had always to bear t brunt of the fighting and fatigue of padding. We made good progress. We were about 100 miles from Grassland, which opened up prospect of future fsasts of beef, veal and mutton and pleasant variety of vegetables, as well as oil and but ter for cooking"
 Here the writer describes conflicts with the Wambutti dwarfs, which he found very numerous in this region. The Wambuttis clung to the northeast route, which Stanley wanted to take. Accordingly he went south east and followed elephant tracks. He says:
 But on December we were compelled to halt for forage in the middle of vast forest, at a spot indicated by my chart to be not river. quote from my journal part of what I wrote on December 13, the sixth day of the absence of the foragsrs.
 Six days have transpired since our foragers left us. The first four days the time passed rapidly, might say almost pleasantly, being occupied in recalculating my observations from Ugarrawwa to Lake Albert. My why the large band of foragers did not re- turn. On the fifth day, having distributed all the stock of -four in camp and having killed the only goat we possessed, wes com pelled to open the officers, provision boxes and take pound pot of butter, with two cupfulls of my flour, to make an imitation gruel, there being nothing else save tsa, cof fee, sugar and pot of sage in the boxes. In the afternoon boy died and the con- dition of majority of the rest was meat disheartening. Some could not stand, falling down in the effort to do so. These constant sights acted on my nerves until I began to feel not only moral, but physical sympathy, as though the weakness was contagious. Before night mahdi carrier died. The last of our Somalis gave signs of collapse and the few Soudanese with us were scarcely able to move.
 On December 1T the Thuru river wss reached. We crossed the next day, and for the two following days we steered through | the forest regardless of paths. We reached | Fort Bodo plantation on the 2Oth and found Lieutenant Stairs and the garrison, 51 souls, remaining out of 59 left there.