St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-31
How He Prosecuted the Search
to the Center of Dark
est Africa.
The Cause Of the Rear Guard
Calamity AS He Ex-
planned 1t.
A Pleased Audience Listens
to a Tale Of Strange
Travel.

| iCStulO dI lilO ItOpic CHuICu ldSb
night. During the afternoon the STAN
ley party, which consisted of Mr.. STAN
| ley, Mrs. Stanley, formerly Dorothy
Tenant, Mrs. Tenant, Maj. Pond, the
explorers manager and striking Fan
zibari valet, rugged in the traits of his
native haunts iii doleful Africa, viewed
| the city and enjoyed the greetings OF
| curious and interested citizens who
called upon them at their quarters IN
| the Ryan hotel.
The hero of the day is genial-faced
man of close-knit pudgy frame, iron
| gray hair and mustache, and very much
| III appearance like the published prints
| which are displayed in the city. The
impression that his hair is as white as
his ghost is erroneous. 1t is, On the con-
| trary, rather dark and very mixed in
| gray and fading black. In chatting
about his present tour with a GLOBE
reporter, he very affably suggested that
his success had been altogether pleas
ing; that his first visit to st. Paul
since 1866. when he first took to scrib-
bling for the press, was accompanied
with much surprise at the wonderful
signs Of progress which stood glaring
at him from all sides. Mrs. Stanley was
delighted with the Twin cities. and re-
grettedthat her stay would be necessarily
short.
The Lecture.
In the evening a mixed audience of
1000 persons greeted Mr.. Stanley at
| the Peoples church. Rev. S. q. Smith
| escorted the lecturer to the stage and
| introduced him as the being who is
characterized by the listless school child
| as the 'hOrrid man who made the map
| of Africa" DR.. Smith stated that the
! lecture was the man-not SO much the
manner in which the main story would
| be presented under exalted expectations
| of impaSsioned speech. He referred in
| hearty expression to the ten years
which the exvlorer spent in America,
| between the years 81 and '67, ''that de-
| cade i'll which America shook and tot
| tered with the convulsion of the times"
| Sixteen years had the explorer spent in
the gloom of African jungles, and now
that his work had been accomplished in
the interest of all mankind, we were TO
view the man-Henry Nj. Stanley.
With gracious bow and ease Of
manneE the lecturer addressed the
| house, first upon the fancied picture of
| that much-diScussed second Gordon
Emin Pasha-for whose relief Briton
| had ventured her greatest modern hero.
| The lecturer detailed, with a satirical
| tNit, lu0 CIRCUMSTANCES WulCl OISdli-
| lied his aides for the expedition. He
| Informs us with a sheer that the young
man, JamlsOn, who is lamented factor
in the Barttelot imbroglio, paid $4,000
| for the privilege of accompanying
! Stanley to the heart of Africa. He
! said that in organizing his band he had
] drawn from many hundred applicants
the best equipped and most accom-
plished officers that he could find on both
| sides of the deep. On Feb. 81, 1857, he
arrived at Zanzibar. From there he
! navigated to the mouth of the Congo,
| which he reached on March Is, thence
up the Congo los miles to point north
| of Stanley pool, which lies in the Congo
| Free State 2S5 miles from the western
! shore of the continent. Arriving at
| Yambuya, the great leader in the under
| taking divided his following, leaving
| Bartelot, Jamison, Barry and others
with 600 bulks and large baud of native
! bearers to await the GOO memorable
natives which the uDfaithful Tippoo
lib agreed to furnish to augment the
rear column, of which SO much contro-
versy has been voiced in press and OH
the platform. The natives were to join
The Rear Column
which was instructed to follow STAN
iey's advance through ''that impene-
| trable womb of true tropical forest''-
| the Great forest, situate in the very
center of the African continent. For
| fourteen months nothing was heard or
seen of the rear column. The advance
| had reached and explored the Albert
| NinaDZa on the 14th of December. 1887,
| in search of Emin Pasha, who with his
! troops was located somewhere III the re-
| cesses about Lake Albert. MIR. Stanley
| described with frequent expressions of
| suspicion of Emin's strange conduct,
| how he discovered the latter, after a
second attempt and the passage between
| himself, Emin and the German govern
ment of contradictory letters. HIS opin-
! ion of Emin is not flattering to that OBJ
! stinate and vain-glorious adventurer.
! 1t was not until the 10Th of March, 1888,
that Stanley pushed out OF the doleful
| wilderness, where travel of 400 yards an
hour in some regions, was made inf
| niteiy hopeless in continual dark
| ness. So dense was all growth
| that ak and eutlass were the
only means of hewing out.
paths and courses OF travel. After the
| first trip to Lake Albert, return to
| the forest on the back trail was begun
! along the banks of the Congo for the
| establishment OF part of the eXpedi-
| ton. From here the negotiations with
l
cued and the pasha. Instead of diScov-
| ering a stately and commanding per-
sonage of military beaaing and hardy
| aggreSSiveneSS, Stanley found q weaZ-
| ened shrunkened little man with no
more command in his countenance than
| in the skull of an African pigmy. For
months Stanley and Emin discussed mat
| tiers pertinent to the reScuer and rescued
| Emin would not return to Egypt to
| Shrivel up quiet and unobserved ex-
/ iStence in Cairo coffee house. He
| wanted to serve Britain in Africa, and
| yet when propositions one upon the
| other were made to him by Stanley,
| under commission from Leopold of Bel
| GUM, and Britain, the quailing, con-
| ceited Emin shifted from the accept
ance of one to the refusal of all. Stan
ley says he never yet could find out
what Emin Pasha wanted. He was this
| one day and that the next, and during
Stauley's return through the for
est in search Of the rear column.
| he learned and afterwards found
that Emin Pasha's troops had revolted
| and taken him prisoner, and so held
him until SANKEY'S return for the third
| time the Albert NyanZa, when circun-
stances brought Emin to the ranks of
| the expedition. Mr. Stanley claims
that irresolution, neglect and indiffer-
ence to orders wrought the disaster in
| the camp of the rear column. Troop,
/ Ward and Bonney are
The Oaly Survivors,
| with handful of natives, out of 800 OF
400 with which the camp at Yambuya
was established. Stanley says Emins
troops cursed the governor; they want
| ed to leave that accused country, but
that EInin would rather rule and be a
king in Africa than forgotten and for
given citizen of Constantinople.
He scores him deity at every turn
and illustrates with the force of the re-
cital of ENNIS anxiety to accept a
proposition from the British govern
ment to remain in Africa as governor
! of the British possessions, quartered al