The Portland daily press., 1890-08-20
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In Darkest Africa. By Henry M Stanley.
(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; 1890.
Two volumes. Octave. 547 and $40 pp) In
volume III. Mr. Stanley starts on his third
journey to the Nyanza. Out of the 102 men
of the rearguard with Mr.. Bonny, only sixty
seemed able to move, and all were democrat
lied. Mr.. Stanley quickly found that the
sickness was due to eating bitter manioc
without properly preparing it. and the de-
moralzation was owing to bad management.
The road being now known their progress
was more rapid, but still they were obliged
to fight their way through. One night two
of his best Zanzibari in trying to capture
goat were ambushed and slain. Mr.. Stanley
made this the occasion of reading the men a
lesson. he said, what monstrous ingrati-
tudel have given you cattle, sheep, goats
fowls, handfuls of silver, and thousand
pounds worth of clothes. but not one of you
has offered his throat to me to be cut; yet
for the sake of goat, at any time day or
night. the cannibal may kill and then eat
you! The small pox ragged among his car
riers, and the caravan was dissoderly and
careless, but, as he remarks, the penalty for
raidiDg was death. and the natives inflicted
it unfailingly. In the first forty-nine days
they had forty-four deaths from disease and
fighting. When they had arrived near Fort
Bodo he found that many Of his men, trust
ing to the information of the dwarf captives
that plenty was ahead, had thrown their five
days rations away, and starvation was i'm
minent. The caravan was halted and the
able-bodied sent back thirty-fve miles for
food. The others starved and waited six
days and then started back themselves, and
met the foragers returning. They had tar
ried to gorge themselves forgetting their
starving companions.
On the Goth Of December, 1888, four months
after starting, they reached FoIt Bodo, and
received an enthusiastic welcome from the
little garrison. The men were in good condi,
tion. they had raised large supplies of corn,
plantains, sweet potatoes, beans and tobacco,
and everything was ready for start, but
Jephson had not come from the Lake and
there were fifty loads without carriers
Stanley decided to make double marches to
the Ituri River. there to leave Lieut.. Stairs
and officers with the sick, and to go forward
rapidly himself to the Lake to meet his ap-
pointment. He would be ten days Late, but
the fault was with the Pasha and Jephson
who should have had the carriers at Fort
Bodo. On the 9th Of January 1889, the
camp was established at Kandekore and on
the 10th Stanley babe the rearguard goodbye
and pushed forward toward the Lake. On
the way he encountered messengers with
letters from Jephson and the Pasha showing
that they had been made prisoners by the
mutinous soldiers of the Pasha and could
not come, but, as Mr.. Stanley pointed out to
Jephson later, If they had moved promptly
as agreed, they would have been out of the
way of the mutineers Finally they meet,
and then it takes the Pasha a long time to
make up his mind whether to be saved or
not. In the meantime Stanley orders up the
rearguard. The threatening attitude of the
Mahdists having persuaded Emin 10 60, his
followers began to troop in with immense
amounts of luggage, including Saratoga
trunks, ten-gallon beer pots, and heavy
grinding stones, for Stanley's bearers to lug
to the sea. The Pashas people were haugh-
ty and treated their rescuers as slaves, which
caused a mutiny among the Zanzibari This
was promptly quelled, and on the 10th of
April the whole party set out for Zanzibar.
There were about 600 of Emin's people, men,
women and children. Stanley's expedition
mustered 230, with 100 Manyuemas, and $50
natives from the neighborhood engaged as
bearers, 1910 In all. On the 18th Stanley was
attacked by gastritis, the complaint which SO
nearly postponed his wedding, and the expe-
dltion was detained until Nav 8tb. This
gave ample time for any of Emin's laying
officers to have caught up II thew had
wished. N"N
The route lay to the eastward of Albert
Edward Lake and around the southerlv end
of Victoria Lake, thence with crescent
sweep to the southwark to Zanzibar. This
led them close to Rurvenzori, the giant
mountain, which Lieut.. Stairs attempted to
climb. He got up nearly 1000 feet, then
had to give it up. Their march was mostly
through friendly country, as the expedition
was too strong for the chiefs to rob them, as
they might have done smaller party. They
had some skirmishes with Kabba Rega's
men, who were sent to attack them, but Stan
lev had evidently made trained soldiers of
his men by this time, for they promptly
threw down their burdens when attacked,
deployed as skirmishers, and invariably
drove the enemy back with loss.
On August 2Sth they arrived at the sta
ton of the Church Missionary Society at the
foot of Lake Victoria, and were cordially
welcomed by Mr.. MacKay. A large stock
of canned provisions were stored here to