The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-20

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pasha infdel friends asked the sultan.
The explanation which followed was of
little use; they knew no distinctions:
Christians they had merely heard of as
the worst people IN the world, and pro-
baby, until they saw me, scarcely be
ieved them to be human. We shortly
after returned to our camp. and never
afterward was invited to enter the sui
tan of Mandara's presence"
AID REFUSED BY MISSIONARIES.
But it was not the natives only who
gave the great explorer trouble. The
missionaries viewed his project with dis
trust. and, forgetful of past favors, re-
fused TO place their Congo steamers at
his disposal until they had been strenu-
orlsly urged and enormously paid. For
the use of the Rev Mr. Billington's boat,
the Henry Reed, 1000 cash was de-
manded and given. Another missionary
in declining absolutely to aid the expe-
dition wrote: Il have much regard for
youEoersonally, although 1 canno., dare
not sanction all your acts. If
you have any reyerential regard for the
Man of Sorrows the King of Peace
may he mercifully preserve and save
your party"
Yet, despite everything, in face of OBJ
stacles that to the ordinary man would
seem insurmountable, and which in
deed did induce the rear guard to return
to the west coast. Stanley accomplished
his task That Emin was an unwilling
object Of solicitude derogates nothing
from the glory of the affair.
Stated in figures the financial exhibit
of the expedition is this: Received from
subscribers, e33, 1858 12s.; expenses, e27,-
700 9s. sd.
chronicle of mans endurance, heroism
and self sacrifice, and no more fitting
close can be found for this review of the
work than reproduction of the final
paragraphs of the second volume. Says
Mr. Stanley, preparatory to writing
fms to his book:
IMPRESSIVE SCENES.
'SOme scenes of the wonderful land
of inner Africa, through which we have
travelled together, must forever cling to
our memories. Wherever we go some
thought Of some one of the many scenes
in that great forest will intrude itself
into the mind. The eternal woods will
stand in their far away loneliness for
ever As in the past, so they will flourish
and fall for countless ages in the future,
in dumb and still multitudes, shadowy
as ghosts in the twilight, yet silently
creeping upward and higher into the air
and sunshine. In fancy we shall often
hear the thunder crashing and rushing
in rolling echoes through the silence and
the darkness we shall see the leaden
mists of the morning, and in the sun
shine the luster of believed verdure and
the sheen of wet foliage, and inhale the
fragrance of flowers.
"And now and then-oh, the misery
of it!-athwart the memory will glide
specters of men covering in the rainy
gloom, shivering with cold, gaunt and
sad eyed through hunger, despairing in
the midst of the unknown; we shall hear
the moaning of dying men, see the stark
forms of the dead and shrink again with
the hopelessness of our state. Then like
CLEANS of fair morning will rise to view
the prospects of the grassland, the vistas
of green bossy hills, the swirling swathes
of young grass waltzing merrily with
the gale, the flowing lines of boscage
darkening the hollows, the receding
view of uplifting and subsiding land
waves rolling to the distance where the /
mountains loom in faint image through !
the underlined blue. And often
thought will wing itself lighter
than swift bird and soar in
aerial heights over sere plain, blue water,
vivid green land and silver lake, and sail |
along the lengthy line of colossal mount |
ain shoulders turned toward the Semliki, /
and around the congregation of white .
heads seated in glory far above the Afrio
world, and listen to the dropping waters
RS they tumble down along the winding |
grooves of Ruwenzeri in sheaves of silver /!
arrows, and speed through the impend-
ing rain clouds and the floating globes
If white mist over unexplored abysses,
-hrnuGh tha eternal haze of Usongora,
and up with joyous leap into the cool
over AnkoTi and Karagwe,
and straight away over 300 leagues of
pastoral plains and thin thorn forest
back again to marvel at the delightful
azure of the Indian ocean.
Good night. pasha, and you, Capt.
Casati. You will know better when you
nave read these pages what the saving
IF you cost in human life and suffering
have nothing TO regret. What 1 have
given that have given freely and with
almost good will; and so say we all.
"GOOD NIGHT
Good night, gentlemen of the relief
committee! Three years are passed since
Tour benevolence commissioned US to re-
ieVe the distressed and rescue the weak
Two hundred and sixty all told have
been returned to their homes; about 80
more are in safety.
Good night, OH my companions,
Nay honOurs such as you deserve be
howered upon you. To the warm
hearts Of your countrymen L consiEn
-ou. Should one doubt be thrown upon
7our manhood 0. upon your loyalty or
lonor within these pages the record Of
our faithfulness during period which
doubt will ever be exceUed FOR its
doom and hopelessness VIII be found to
how with what noble fortitude you bore
IL Good night, Stairs, Jephson, Nell
on. Parke and you. Bonny, a long good
night to you all.
--ho uavsr tvsr-aE err !