The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-12-14
Henry NJ. Stanley Tells a
Jersey City Audience
About His Wander
ings in Africa.
THAT MYSTERIOUS FALL.
The Pasba's Dive From the Cairo
Balcony Raised a Barrier Be-
tween Him aud the
Great Explorer.


| A large and fashionable audience gath
! cred in the Tabernacle last evening to
listen to Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley tell OF the
| Rescue of Emin Pasha." Mr. Stanley
read his lecture from manuscript,
which rested upon q music stand all
most as tall as himself He is unfortu-
nate in his delivery and speaks in such
| low tone that it is difficult matter to
distinguish what he says at q short
distance from the platform. He began
his Lecturer with compliment TO the
| fortitude and bravery OF Emin Pasha. and
said that his frequent alIusions to Prov
| idence showed what kind of man he
was.
| Mr.. Stanley then spoke of the royal
| welcome he received in America when he
/ was here in 1886, and how, just as he was
| about to deliver his eleventh lecture he
was called TO relieve Emin Pasha by
the King of Belgium. Then he spoke Of
/ the formation of the relief of the expedi-
| ton aud told how Barttelot Jamison,
] Jephson and Surgeon PARK joined the ex-
| petition. Jephson he said paid $500 for
the privilege Of Joining
| The journey through the deep almost
unpenetrable forest was graphically de-
| the route for information Of Emin,
but nothing was heard Of him. Ali
| that could be learned OF the Pasna was
that he had married an Abysenian
woman and had q daughter by her who
was then five years old. Finally he be-
came Emin's messages. Help us or we
peTish.v There the expedition hurried
| for fear it would be too late.
THROUGH THE DENSE FOREST.
| So thick was the forest thai they made
| only 179 miles in thirty days. Whenever
enough to exchange words with
them they were asked whether
there We're any open country near.
They held up a blade OF grass and asked
if there was any like it around. The
| natives gave them 10 understand that
| there was nothing but forest around
| HlMr. Stanley then graphically described
the horrors of q storm in the forest at
night, with the bowling Of the wind, the
groaning of the great trees and the fury
Of the rain as it boat down upon the
straw thatched roofs OF the natives nuts
gers of the forest; the sting Of
! u poisonous insect, the scratch OF native
spear and the danger Of being cut zup for
| cannibal feast. The stores began 10 run
short and the men became
them to push on. telling them
| that their only hope lay in moving on.
| Finally the open country was reached
When the expedition came to it they ran
forward like wanton children and reyeled
| in the sunshine.
Finally Emin was met and then the
question arose. Would he be content with
the ammunition and supplies brought 20
him or would he accept their escort to
civilization? Emin said he would go il
his people would CO.. When pressed
for an answer he began 10
tap his knee. He asked what was the
| use OF his going to Europe to accept
small pension when he was king there.
| where thousands did his bidding and
| where what he said was fates
THE FATAL REAR COLUMN.
Mr.. STANLEY then referred to the rear
column which has been so fruitful OF con-
troversy of late He said nothing new
upon the subject and dismissed it with
a few carefully selected words.
Then he went back to Enin
Pasha and said he finally
offered him 81. 500 salary aud 312,000 tor
his troops annually il he would enter the
service of the Congo Free State. Emin
asked by whose authority the offer was
| made, aud when Stanley said Leopold,
/ King of Belgium, Emin said that as he
had served the crescent so long he could
not change his allegiance IN day
to the silver star and the blue flag. This
Mr. Stanley thought was noble in the
Pasha. The rear column was again re-
ferred to and the story of its discovery
related When Mr.. Stanley asked for
Major Barttelot the tale that Mr.. Bonny
poured into his ears he said could not
bear repetition He trembled as he heard
it. Then he received news that Jephson
and Emin were prisoners. Jephson sent
hin letters of farewell and Emin COM
mended to him his daughter
Finally Emin was rescued and they set
H4..-4~
rhusiastic about going one day and the
next he would hold back. bis Soudanese
officers would fall on their knees
and kiss his hand and then go
away and say that all be was
good for was 70 gather insects. The
lecturer then described the march home
ward, told of the snow clad mountains
which were passed N the centre of At
rica He spoke of q river, the waters of
which the Arab legend said were sweeter
than honey and more fragrant than musk
Mr.. Stanley said that he was sorry he
could not endorse the legend. The
waters of the muddy Mississippi were
far more preferable to him.
EMIN'S MYSTERIOUS FALL
The next point dwell upon was the mys-
terious fall Emin had at Cairo while on
his way 10 Europe. The German Consul
made speech in which he spoke of going
to Europe. Ten minutes afterward he
wicked out on the balcony and fell over the
low wallto the pavement below. He was
picked up and taken to the hospital AL
though alarming reports of his condition
were spread about he soon recovered and
is now in the employ of the German Gov
| ernment aud is collecting insects near
/ Victoria Myanza. That fail, Mr..
Stanley said, placed q barrier between
him and Emin. II he wanted TO
visit his frien;i, the Pasha. bulletin was
put out saying that his condition was
alarming, and when he sent
his little black boy to the hospital
with a letter for him the boy was told by
the German officers that il he came TIL
again with any messages Mr.. Stanley
would be strung up by the neck until he
was dead. dead, dead.
The lecturer closed with a hurried
glance over the return voyage to Eng