New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-07
NEW-YORK FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4 I690-TWELVE PAGES.

the dawn with music This disturbed the Major; i
lie Said uttering an oath Will stop thiS' an"
shoot the first man who discbeys' = -.
He goes out with loaded Nvolver In his
hand and with his terrible cypcss sta 4. wnc sss0s
of the singing He finds It's woman sitting on
the ground, with one Of the native drums before
her, and she is beating It and singing al tne same
her. singing She keeps on singing. and looks up
at him in a sort of defiant way, because you muse
understand that everybody hates him. ne again
with his cypress staff, and finally kicks her The
husband il cleaning his gun in a hut about nye e
yards from her. He hears his wife scream, LOOKS
out through l0ophole and sees the MAJOR kicking
her. He pushes his gun through the loophoie
and shoots him dead.
You must understand that he is not slave.
s is chief He has ensasea ~ LOFTY These men
love their wives just as much as civiilzed nien
lie takes revenge as any other man would. ~ =
merely spasm Of anger. There Is no prepara'ion
Would that be a fair sample of Major Barttelot's
conduct?
CONFIRMING THE REPORTS.
| OF course must rely on reports furnished 10
Inc. The surviving White officer says IL ls ne
saws that Major Barttelot had the habit OF stand
ing in front Of the natives and grinning at them
Ike a fend. He had four large white teeth, very
| prominent. The surviving officer lBonney) wouiu
initiate TO me lust his arinaces so that could sec
| the whole thing. That Is one reason ne was 50
| intensely hated, but do not rely solely on tne
written report Of Bonney for all this. Ihere were
| over five hundred people who were ready u 'eh
| me about it. A..
You got good deal of testimony from the
natives? A. ,,.nuor,o
chief and other men, and from our own Zanziparis
| and SOudaneSe soldiers, men who would m@Nc
| no object in telling any stories about IT, lhey
might emphasize certain things, Dut they couiu
not invent
Now the onus of the accusations Of Troup seems
| to lie in the fact that your instructions to them
indicated great socit1dss about 1ne nc re
| gard for them. Did you impress upon tnem 'ha'
they must guard the loads at all hazards?
My instructions were drawn to suit their S own
| wishes 1t is just as II you were with me, ana !
and some here, and all the world is saying
do not % 5s surIy S, ike nR Gordon to nesxs Mss
We'll be too late. Therefore, the only way can
tide over is that an advance column should go on,
cut its way through the bush, and you, as soon as
| low and not being obliged to cut your way
through the bush, but follow q straight track,
will soon overtake u.s. Could it not be done :
There about 600 loads here ha are oedS are
Of NOT much use unless we have plenty of car
riers-and you have only limited supply. Snch I:,l
loads brass rods tools osc9issne acb men an his
rations and it will make big hole IN your soores'
but your fixed ammunition and clothes are es-
sent Our medicine our c4a tS brass OF SrrsS pSSs
nav give away. So from 600 you could easily, re-
duce the loads to 45O without detrlment very
we'll The object was dtrnu OF course 70 ciWliza. cndi
tion these goods will meet him halfway II ne Is
coming back with us, and then by the nime we We
reach the outskirts Of any settied terrtory Ss Ss
Tho
gov he used for purchasing victuas We shall
better know ut that time what is absolutely es.
sental for the expedition when we see Eniil, ILL., nu.
in the meantime we cannot nave 700 many s'oie'
THEY NEED NOT HAVE STAYED.
Then there was no necessity for their staying in
that camp?
| Not at all
They could have moved out under your instruc
tions?
Quite so exactly. notice in Captain Barttelot's
l,,ev book le says there is not r-.n IL all tEf
world who would propose such q cning a. a sus
ccsted for tile rear guard. / say in the lnstrue
tions "Tippoo 6 may perhaps noL seno ,nd yJdu so
and he may send you some men ana yes ,.n' mo'
enough to march all at once, in when case you
repeat your %arehes marc soctve T s for that breeds
discontent Captain Barttelot says such thin5
was never heard of: that no man In the Ioil,o la
world would propose such a. thing. nave uinci
| FIFTYJTwO MILES IN YEAR
Tn sTbe Congo and the Founding of a Free
State, will be found this paragraph in volume
COMPUTING by statute miles for the various
marches and as frequent counter-marches accom-
nlished during the year of 366 days. we found
That the amount came to the grand total OIL 2,5oI
English miles, according to tape-line measurement
| or foot by foot making an average OF D IL miles
performed throughout each day in the year s
gain an advance Of only hity-Iwo i mises. ..,ov
miles marched to make an advance Oh nlty-Iwo
Take away the Necessary Gays Sl u' daWs en-
nIoved in ma king a passable road for our wagons
which. unless tolerably levelled, would have oeeI
for our that we mus
have had an unusually sacred regard Ior ,a auT =,
besides large hope that some day we wo9lo "
rewarded with positive success aiter az ,r uur
self and another white man do this work, maKihe
wagon-road fifty-two miles long and, with aI sn'
aid Of few natives occasionally naulng ing nn' no'
long steel wagons, some forty-ive feet long an. M
n;ne ,Tns feet wide carrying the steamers and car
rvine 3. 600 loads This we made after thirty
three marches backward and forward along IN I'm
6ftv-two miles. On the other hand, BaTttclot
with 27I men and five British officers, only hat i
TO take about 45O loads, and Captain Bartteio
says: S " 1t is a thing no other man in the r0un'
world would di talk Mr aGouS stanley YOU only ordered
them to do things that you had done yourself!
THEY WOULD MEET CoURIERs.
By which means, we had been enabled to maxi
the Congo State. so many strokes with littl
hatchet cut down a great oak. did not expec
them TO 90 all the way to Lake Albert. The!
ore simnlv expected to employ themselves as vel
as they can. and get as far as possible In tel
months they would have gone 300 miles lnian, ian,
if they had only started. In two months ,aes rie
would have come across my couriers, Dearihs
charts of the route, with letters from Stairs
.Icnhson. Nelson and myself If they had goh'
on for four months more they would have 1ouii.
the second abtch of my cOuriers, twenty men
with the news that we had found Emin Pacha
and would have been relieved by finding canoe, canoes
which would have assisted them, and every mll'
forward would have relieved them OF the necesslts
Of carving on the porters' shoulders On th'
same track as i had gone / had already foune
twenty canoes, and was able to put the eW1,a' ha
expedition, rear and advance column, III. VIVA
had done Major Barttelot could do.
There was nothing in your instructions 10 Pre-
| ,..nt those men using the loads in camp 10 Dul