Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-18
sTANLEY,s OWN STORY.
Twenty.three Years in Africa - The
Future OF the Congo.


Future OF tho Congo.
Mr.. Henry N. Stanley has in several recent
interviews related the cause for the differences
| between himself and his two former officers
Ward and Troup. His statement shows that 20
far from wishing to blacken Maj. Barttelofs
fame by rehearsing the awful story Of the rear
guard he strovs to suppress the narrseive.
| He says:
| "My quarrel with Troup arose over the Bart
teiot affair. asked him not to say the things
he was going to say Of Maj. Barttelot told
him the man was dead and that no should be
allowed to rest quietly in his grave. Irefused
to publish his incorporate letter containing his
charges against Bartteiot on the ground that
while Ma. Barttelot was alive he (Troupl didn't
! think 1t his duty to protest, and now that he
was dead he Group had no right to do So.
But he, too, went ahead, regardless OF his con-
book came ont Its publication was stopped
] by an injunction, and it is well known that tho
l fault found with it was Troup's violent attack
on Maj. BarttcIot. He had no business to
| write q book containing such charges against
dead man unless he knew his own skirts were
clear.
| TIE CONTROVERSY FORCED on HIN.
81 had no intention Of continuing this con-
| troversy. didn't begin it 1t was opened by
Maj. Barttelots brother and Mrs. Jameson,
| who denied my statements. What was left me
| then but to substantiate them2 simply said:
Here are my proofs and published the ac-
! count that appeared in tho London Times
say in reply to Mrs. Jameson's letter DENYING
her husbands connection with tho cannibai in
! cidents, he said:
| "Of course, ] was not present at the murder
OF the slave girl, but have the testimony OF
Mr.. Bonny, who had the account of what trans
! r hfmaaK hqf0r8
latter realized the cnormity Of his action. Then
| there is the affidavit Of Assad Farran, and Troup,
too. says it is true. Had the men who were ini-
| plicatcd in the affair been living when heard
| of it would have opened searching inquiry
quickly enough. But Bart.elot and Jameson
are dead. Benny and others are alive, and
| they corroborate the facts. 1t was only after
the survivors began to spread their scandals
that was forced to make statement attr:bus-
! ing the wreck of the rear column to tho neglect
| and indifference OF its officers"
THE WHOLE STORY.
Then Mr.. Stanley, in q graphic narrative,
went over tho whole story as he had learned it
He began with his meeting with Mr.. Benny at
| Banalya on his return trip. Banalya is not far
| from Yambuya, where Stanley expected to find
Barttelot, Jameson, Ward and Troup. To his
! great disappointment and sorrow he found no
| one but Mr.. Benny, who conveyed to him his
| first knowledge OF the death of Barttclot and
| up and down the Congo. that Troup had been
sent home sick and that no one was left in
charge OF tho shattered remnant OF the column
but Bonny. Then Mr.. Stanley continued:
Il asked Bonny to tell me how such a state
| o: affairs had been brought about, and he said
! that he was reluctant TO speak Of his fellow
officers, SO it was in piecemeal that he told me
OF some of the mysterious happenings, but it
was not until had returned TO Emia Pasha
| that heard Of Jameson's connection with the
nff o, Tn vl,nv,N
Bonnys had told of it. When heard of it
sent for Benny and asked him il it was true.
He said it was, for Jameson had told him of it.
Then day by day Bonny told me the history Of
the rear column since had left it. Benny said
they were all afraid of Maj. ParttelOt, but
have yet to learn that any OF them protested
against his conduct"
TrPpoo TrB's FAILURE.
Then Mr.. Stanley told of his leaving the
rear column on June %, urging them to fol-
low after him. "But," said Mr.. Stanley, ''if it
had been decided to remain on account of the
failure OF Tippoo Tbs carriers to arrive they
might have built fort and husbanded their
resources. II they had decided to advance
| they could have done so by taking the goods
piecemeal- But they did nothing. They
waited and waited, got up endless discussions
| and quarres, and nothing was accomplished"
MIR. Stanley was asked what reason he as
| signed for the failure OF Tiproo lib to send the
carriers he had promised, and the explorer said
that probably the chief couldn't understand
Barttelot and Barttelot couldn't understand
him. ~ think" he said "Tippoo lib was
afraid OF the major, as the officers were. Tho
major was brave man, but not diplomat
He had the determination that does not finch
In time Of danger, but not the requisite quail
ties for that kind of work"
HOW he HAS BEEN ABUSED.
"There is the story. 1t is now twenty three
years since l frs. left for Africa and have
tried at ali times to do my duty. What have 1
| received in return? On my return from my
first expedition an English lord said that STAN
ley did not discover Livingstone, but that Lfv-
ingstonc discovered Stanley. / was branded ut
the time as falsifier by the press. In copy
of the New York Sun that / picked up yeara
ago l found ia a large headline, Stanley is a
Liar" In another column it was stated that
| Gen. Grant was drunkard and Vice President
Wilson hypocrite SO l was III good company.
1he same treatment was accorded me i'll the
press OF the United States. and went back to
! Africa, pierced the Dark Continent, found the
| Congo and safely reached the west coast. Then
/ started on q lecturing tour in America and
the press renewed its denunciations alb out
Livingstone, though tie fully corroborGted me.
Then interrupted my lecture tour to go and
| lind Emln Pasha ut the instance OF the Emin
| relief committee, and found him.
What again is tho RESULT l am called q
murderer and an abductor | have given proofs
! to the London inns OF my conduct, and ia a
| court OF law will prove not only what l have
already said, but many things which do not
| care to say now"
FUTURE OF THE CONGO.
| As to the future OF the Congo state Mr.. Stan
| ley said: with the completion Of the railroad
from Matadi to Stanley Pool the trip Of 1900
miles into the interior Of Africa will be en- easy
matter. Ali that Is wanted is the railroad for
| every other means Of transportation hiss been
| tried and has failed. We have tried men, ole
| plants, camels, mules, horses and donkies, and
] the country will be opened up and food tina,
white men can eat will be obtainable, and
| hotels will be possibility. The climate is as
pleasant as that of any of the southern states. ~
| UNREcoRDED ACTS OF CRUELTY.
In an interview with Mr.. Stanley New York
Sun reporter, after examining the diary kept
| by Mr. Stanley during his last trip through
Africa and being told Of the acts OF cruelty re-
! corded in the log book, asked: Were there
| no other crueltics or unusual treatment of the
| natives besides those i'll the log book?'
| Certainly there were" Mr.. Stanley replied.
| "Ihere was q SoRaanese who had offended
! Maj. Barttelot in some why, who was made fast
| to n cross, hole was dug i'll the ground before
| him; the man WIS shot and WAS then stuck into
| the hole. head downward, and the hole filled in
but his feet were left sticking above the ground
| and SO he remained. At another time q mar
whom the major had condemned 10 death wa,
| compelled to dig his own grave, was forced to
| step into 1t, and the earth was filed III around
him while he WIS still alive, leaving merely his
head ard neck above ground, and tho major