The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-01-26

cannot give decisive answer, the matt
ter is left till we return with the rear coli
umn. Meantime, Jephson was TO go
with Emln and read to the officers OF the
Egyptian Government the Khedive's
orders to them to return, telling them ii
they decline our aid they will get no
more. Five hundred and sixty miles
ninety miles east of ambouga-and there
is stockade filthy beyond description
we find one white man and 102 men, and
OF these forty-two dying. The rest were
dead or had deserted, The commanding
officer had been shot; Jameson was at
Stanley Pool; Ward gone home. such
story as Bonny told and the SURVIVORS
verified, and the. traces showed, was
never told in book of African. travel,
What I saw was horrible, what heard
was worse, and / summed it up that
'Ihe rear column was wrecked by the
INDIGESTION of its officers" The fault lay
in
BARTTELoT'S HEADSTRONG TEMPER;
This might have been restrained by the
others banding together, but it was per-
united to go on till he was shot by man
who saw his wife being ill-treated. /
tried to suppress these stories as being
useless as some of those taking part We're
dead. The stories would have remained
so II the relatives OF the dead, and Ward
and Troup had not been dissatisfied with
my judgment upon the conduct of the Of
ficers. Public opinion says / was wrong
IN appointing Barttelot over men of
known fidelity. But Barttelot was a
brevet-major for heroism. and if his COM
panions had been energetic his conduct
would have been tempered, and his conf
mand success; as it was, their passive
submissal only made it worse. The
column was then reorganized, and lao
days later We reached the Albert NyanZa
to find Jephson and Emin prisoners
Jephson escaped and Il few days later
Emin and his soldiers escaped from the
Mahdists. OF those who remained one
party fled to the interior with the govern
ment stores, the uthers probably fell
victims to the MalItli. We waited seventy
two days, then marched to the Indian
Ocean, having travelled 600 miles and
been 992 days. We restored Emin to his
Cairo, and 300 exiles to Egypt, where they
were honored with reward and promotion
by the Khedive.
so 1 HAVE GIVEN YOU THE STORY
Of25, 900 miles of African exploration. 1t
is . years since | entered it, more fortu-
nate than others that I was not connected
with geographical society but with u
press giving every snap Of news to mil
lion of readers till China and Japan heard
of it and it was in the great libraries in
London and those of Christian young men
here. Zanzibar is now only twenty-five
days from England. Cables girdle the
dark continent. Explorers no longer
tremble ut the fate of Mungo Park and
others, nor the climate and fatigue.
Against the list of failures is long list Of
successes and the continent bears no
longer the mark terror had put across it.
Men go in and out just as commercial
travellers cross the Atlantic Last year an
expedition went in and crushed rebellion
with an enterprise that astonished the
Arabs. The rind of Africa has been
known from of old, but the interior was
peopled with anthropophago and strange
monsters; giant rivers, tribal limits,
snowy mountains, and river basins have
taken their place. Half the continent has
been parcelled among European nations.
Great Britain has two and a half million
square miles; Germany, France, Portu-
gal large shares. There is fiotilla of
thirty steamers on the Congo. Nyassa
and Tanganyika are plowed by the
sharp keels of steel launches. On the way
to Nyassa we pass fifty mission stations
A railway to Victoria Nyanza is being
urged and the rails are being laid. Africa
can never be the home of the white man,
as America is, but the Goth century will
see great development. Children now
born will yet hear the good news that the
millions of Africa know the meaning Of a
church bell and join in the chant, "Glory
to God in the highest, on earth peace and
good will toward men,"