Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-15
YAMBUYA HORRORS.
AyoUNe GIRL KILLED AND EATEN TO
FURNISH a SKETCH.
9hs Charge AgafnStJamesop Sustained by
the Interpreters AsiidavIt-rhe De-
bauching of Women and Cruel
ties praoticcd.

rear column and all other original docu-
monts bearing upon this unfortunate
controversy Of the Emin Pasha relief
expedition are now givon to tho public.
The documents begin with the affidavit
pi Asssd farran, interpreter OF the expe-
dition, who says: was obliged 10 make
contradiction OF my account for GER
lain reasons. especially because u
was thought not desirable by tho com
miiteo that ] should give information
about the expedition. After we left
Sambuya tho men continued working,
cutting trees for the bona, which You
left unfinished, digging trenches round
about the camp, clearing the roads, etc.
After a few days. seeing no food to DO
got, and that the surrounding villagers,
who had deserted the villages on our
arrival at Yambuya, did not return to
the villages. the Major thought fit to take
an army party Of Soudese soldiers TO at
tack some distant villages he, there
fore, took Omar Agha with twenty-five
Soudancse, and went to n certain village
three hours walk from the camp.
On our arrival the village was deserted,
20 we marched three hours more to m
other village. II also was deserted. The
Major then formed another idea. He
set Mr.. jameson over some Soudanese,
ordering them 10 go into the bush and
hide themselves, and when the native
women, who used 10 come from the
other ddo Of the river searching for food,
passed that way they should take such OF
the young women and children as they
could and bring them 10 the camp. This
was done several times. The first time
three women were brought TO the camp.
One Of them had q small baby in her
nrms, aud thoy were all kept for some
weeks in the guard place Some natives
came to ask for the women, but the Ma
j0r demanded five goats or twenty fowls
FOR each Of them but what ho demand
cd was out Of their ability 70 pay, for
goats nre almost unknown and fowls are
scarce. However, the man brought a
goat and somo fish and released one
woman. TIE two other women were
kept in camp until they made an excuse
they we're going 70 the rear, and threw
Themselves into the tivcr with the little
child and were swept away by the rapids.
Immediately sOmo Of the SOudAnese
jumped into Tho river and followed them.
Ono woman Was caught and brought
back 90 camp but the other, with the
child, was rescued by natives who came
in canoes to meet her, hearing her cries.
The natives, in return, captured one Of
our Xan2baris and took him to the oppo-
site village. where he was kept for few
days, and afterwards ran away and came
back to camp.
WOMEN TIED Ky THEIR NECKs.
Another time Mr. Bonney, after his
arrival in the steamer with the men and
loads. captured several women and
brought them into the camp. This time
they were tied by ropes round their
necks, and i'm the night they were taken
to tho officers quarters These women
were also kept some weeks in the camp
till they got a chance 20 run away. Du-
ring this time the Major usod 10 give one
matakas weekly for every man until
after three months. when it happened
that some SOudanese stole an axe
from the stores and and sold il to
the natives for fish. whercuTon the
Major stopped giving tho matakos -Four
BOudnnese found guilty Of this offence
were noggcd150 lashcseach. The natives
we're afraid 10 come over to our camp to
sell anything, such as fish and bananas.
Our men were not allowed 10 90 TO the
native villages on the other side of the
river. whore the natives hal made vii
laces. and in case somebody bought fish
privately. or fowl, the Major ordered 1t
should Toe taken from them to the Off
GERS mess. Men were logged every day
for sleeping on guard, or leaving the
camp without permission, or neglectug
their dutics Even for the smallest
crime they were severely punished.
MEN WHIPPED EVERY DAY.
Not one day passed without dozen or
two men were logged with one hundred
or fifty or twenty-five lashes each, In
the event of very sick persons no mercy
was shown. One day we beard n great
disturbance in the opposite village. The
natives were screaming, and IN Il minute
after were in their canoes. On inquiry
we were informol that some OF Tippoo
Tbs men were coming mp the nver, and
had entered the village opposite the camp
and fired shots. Directly some English
officers, with the ZanNbaris, took n
canoe and went across to the vii
iage. No strangers were there. The
natives said that "Tippoo Tbs "
men had made camp about six hours
north from ours. The Major then sent
some Zanzharls 10 SEQ who were there,
and il thoy knew anything about our adj
vance column. Next morning the Fan
zibaris came back with some Of Tippoo
Tbs men and the chief Abdullat. These
men knew nothing about our advance
column, hut stated that Stanley Falls
was only six'days from our camp. The
Major thought II was good chance to
gee Tippoo lib about the men no had
promised. He, therefore, asked this
Sheik Abdullat to give him men to show
the road TO the falls and paid him some
cloth for wages, so the Major took the
men with him.
Mr.. Ward. Mr.. Jameson, and / went
10 Stanley Falls, saw Tppo Tib, and
nsked about the men. At the same
time few XanZibaris that Major Bartte-
lot took with him told the Manyema at
Stanley Falls through the interpreter,
athi tAAtlNihNhs NA4At Ait'A hNfA II
" treated by the white men, how they
were suffering from fatigue and hunger,
besides having heavy boxes Of ammuni-
ton TO carry. These reports were
told to Tippoo Tib, who pro-
missed the Major he would col
lect the six hundred as soon as pos
sibie, and send them to YambuYa. He
stated he had been already with ZOO
men to the place pointed ont 70 him by
Mr.. Stanley. There he saw Mr.. Stan
iey's name cut in tree, which assured
him that the expedition had already
passed that way, but because Of the
many fights he had with the natives he
was obliged TO go back. The Major,
with other officers and men. with fifteen
goats and an amount of fowls, came back
10 camp.