Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-11-24
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tAte--rhas Caanibal story.
BosroN, Nov. 2e.-In July, 1883,
A1sd Farran, the Syrian inter
prefer with Stanley's rear guard,
wrote d letter. to Mr.. Camp, en-.
gineer Of the Uppef Congo steamer
Reed, the property Of the American
Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
describing the events transpiring In
the Stanley expedition, with special
reference 70 the rear gus:d uuder
Msjor Bartte!ot. The letter Mr..
Camp sent to Mr.. Lewis, Baptist
missionary at Lukungu. Mr.. Lewis,
in turn, sent a copy to Rev. Ed.
ward F. Merrimau, assistant foreign
seer etary OF the society In Boston,
and Is now published for the first
time. The letter Is rs follows:
LuKUS6U, Angus; I. 1883.
Dear Brother Merriam-Eelow Is
a copy Of q statement sent me by
Brother Camp, with a request that l
send sou q copy;
''Having been engaged In Mr.. STAN
ley's expedition rs an Interpreter
through Africa, shall be glad to give
SOME information about il. Mr.. Stan
LEWIS idea WIS that il would take him
six months TO reach Emin Pa-iia. six
months To relieve him and settle tis
affairs and six months TO 20 back.
WhenMr. Stanley arrived AT Zanzibar
he took 600 men from there To carry
loads and twenty servant boys. With
these. and sixty Soudanese soldiers,
whom he engaged in Egypt, and ti,ir-
teen men from Alden, two interpreters
and ten white men. he started the ex-
petition. Before he left Zanzibar an
engagement was made with Tippo Tiij
that he should give him six hundred
men when they arrived ut Stanley
Falls.
"rhe expedition went as far ~ Yaro-
wini river; there they made n strong
CAMP and Mr.. Stanley. after staying
there a week. took six hundred men
aud five officers and left the rest at
that camp in charge Of Major Bartte-
lot.
"Mr. Stanley left Yanbuya camp on
the 9TH OF June, 1887, promising 70 re-
turn about November LIST. The Nor
who were. left in camp had great dill
culiies, especially about their food, for
in that place there was nothing but
roots and on these ihoy fed for twelve
Also Ill the men became
sick and n good many died of s:arr5-
ton. The Major, who was in Command
had many means of saving the men if
he wished TO. He had a great quantity
Of cloth. brass rods, beads. etc., which
is native money there, which he threw
away at las. He cruelty treated rhe
men, heating them two hundred aid
three hundred stripes NJ a time for
small odenscs and even shot Them |
Tippo Tbs men heard of this and
would not go with the expedition and
Hippo lib himself WIS sorry thai be |
had agreed to give Mr.. Stanley SIX |
hundred men.
Twelve months elapsed aud they |
could get no men from Tippo lib TO |
garry loads and follow Mr.. Stanley.
During this time some deser;ers from
Mr.. Stanley arrived at camp. We -x
pecfed good news from Stanley, but |
here was nothing interesting eNcep; |
That many men were sick. At one |
,ime Mr.. Stanley Left forty on the way |
who could not march. The men fol-
lowed him for five months and did not |
reach the place he was going TO. Nine
of them deserted, seven were eaten by |
rannibals and two reached the camp.
After this the major begged TippO
lib to give some men and II necessary |
10 make new contract and increase
he mems pay, intending il he refused
% throw their stuff into the river and /
20 back 10 Zanzibar. He ordered j.
$. Jameson to go with an interpreter
% Kosongo, u village belonging To
Hippo lib thirty days from Stanley |
Fails, by canoe TO try and get some
men,
on his trip Jameson being anxious
70 see how natives eat each other.
Fought girl ten years old and gave
ner 10 the natives, tina; he might see
hem cat her. They tied her 10 tree.
.tabbed her twice in the bowels, when
sight men rushed up with knives and
ut her up and put her IN their cook
ng pot. Jameson WIS pleased with
he sight and made sketches Of the
sarne. As soon as they arrived in
amp Major Barttelot intended to
cave camp with the men and go TO
Nadali and look for Mr.. Stanley.
steamers arrived and took
.bou, half of the load back TO Bangalia-
Many things were thrown away and
.iven 10 the natives which would have
,aved all the men who died.
A. r. FARHAS.