Evening journal., 1890-11-07

the next day. by keeping up this forward
and backward movement OF six miles n day
you will make good progress Barttelot
says such thing was never heard Of Yet
had at one time previous, with only sixty
two lanzibaris, made thirty-three OF these
back and forth marches in order to makea
total advance Of iifty-two miles ] only
ordered them to do what had been done be-
fore and what | had done myself They
were not expected to go all the way to Lake
Albert, In ten months they would have
gotten 800 miles inland. II they had only
started they would in three months have
met my couriers, who were looking for
them.
In four months more they would have
met my second batch OF couriers. twenty
In number, who would have given them
the news OF the finding OF Emin. What /
had done Mr.. iiarttelot could do. There
was nothing IN my instructions TO prevent.
But the officers said they would not GO
they would stay in the camp and look af-
ter the goods
BIismanagement Everywhere.
"They could even then have looked after
their men and preserved their lives No.
one asked Tippoo Tib for food. So 100 men
died there at Yambuya. Instead of giving
FOOD to the men they sent it down the
river These things made me say that the
rear column had been wrecked by the neg
ligence Of its officers to obey orders.
have the written reports and afiidavits Of
the survivors, so / know who TO blame.
Among themselves they would talk the
state of affairs over and say the major
would ruin the rear column. But as soon
as one of them would propose some way Of
relief the others would back out Then
one would propose that they would 20 and
talk the situation over with Barttelot but
no one seems to have had the courage to
face him. They had no loyalty
Each one In his contract was entitled
to fair share Of the European provisions
which were essential TO the physical well
fare of the white men, but they dared not
ask for them. Maj, Barttlelot picked out
all the canned provisions and sent them
| down the river asked Troup why he did
not write an official letter and demand
these things, but he didn't seem to realize
how to go to work to do so. He told me
he was going to write book, and | told
him he was privileged to write his own ac.
count as he pleased.
The Rescue Of EmIn.
81 did not 20 to Africa as the agent OF
/
no orders TO do anything except to take
the supplies TO Emin. was not to take
him out. II he was desirous TO return Il
civilization was TO escort him safely e
the coast. If he wished to remain / was Il
inform him that he was not to expect anl
more aid from Egypt Those were my in
structions.
"My trip had nothing TO do with the ex
tension Of English or German territory il
any way have Incorporated in my bool
all the official documents regarding tn
expedition
"Mr. Stanley, how about the statemen
that you did not look on the loads OF sup
plies with so much solieitude on your wa
out, as when you went infi
well, that is true TO some extent
Going in, we did not know how long "
would be gone or what supplies we woul
need When Emin decided TO come on
that lessened the Importance OF these SUI
plies In my eyes, as l knew we had mor
than enough. gave Emin thirty-on
loads Of ammunition, but they were aftei
wards captured by his own rebels"
Stories Of BartteIot's Cruelty.
AS fuller explanation OF his dark hint
concerning tho rear column, Mr.. Stanle
said he made 100 incisions from the origins
log book when he published IL In II
| Darkest Africa He added: 1.-THE origins
log book, signed by Mai Barttelot, jaime
S. Jameson and William Bonny day afts
day, is simply just one record Of remors'
less and implacable punishments. Two {
the men were covered with ulcers, upo
which maggots were feeding. This wa
the result simply OF remorseless aoggini
Both men died. Then there is Soud
whom Troup mentions as a nice an
| obedient boy, a quaint child. He gaV
that little boy kick from which he die,
| Another man had been hogged to deaf
and died at the triangle, mission boy.
1.-TWO other men were nogged to deatl
} Another man, made desperate by h
} hunger, takes piece OF meat and eats
raw. He Is sentenced to 300 lashes by Ma
Barttelot One hundred and fifty are give
and the doctor says, Stop, sir; you'll XII
! him. Put him under arrest and let hil
remain in guard until he recovers, and he
get the other i5O yet The man hears thl
and runs away by night, snatches a rii
J and runs into the forest TO lose himsel
! Barttelot sends the entire country huntir
I for him. He is brought back and be
shot. In the log book, as it appears .
} Darkest Africa it says all the men can
t forward to complain. But what did thu
q complaint Sixty men just able TO wal
+ forty-two men dying right on their feet.
Q "It'Ii All Come Out Some Day"
"They all did die, 100 men already des
in YHmbuya. Thirty-three men we
I abandoned In the camp. All these men a
Q my officers. They don't belong to u
committee, but were engaged by me, al
y | asked Mr.. Bonny, Well, you tell me a
3 these horrible things and these people he
r have told me, how can possibly exem
a you from being just as guilty as Barttel
Q in that you did not stop him in one way
= another by moral or physical force fro
o doing all these thingsr Bonny said to n
4 that he had not told me half What, sa
& l, with all these horrible things you ha
Z been telling me all the way from Benali
J, London you have not told me one-ha
= what can there possibly be more horribl,
oh, it'll all come out some day repli
Bonny. The only way to have that broug
r. out say is to summon us all to a court
a law, where every one could examine a
& cross-examine-