Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-05
/" THE RESCUE OF EMlN."
Explorer Stanley's Delightful Leo
ture on Africa.
How He Found Livingstone and Res
cued Emtn PasIa--Parcelling Out the
Dark Continent.

How He Found Livingstone and Res
cued Emtn PasIla--Parcelling Out the
Dark Continent.
How Henry M. Stanley looked and
spoke at the Opera House last night week
is what interested the audience and is
what now interests those who missed
the great good fortune of hearing the
most distinguished traveller and explorer
of our day. His wonderful stories of
African exploration are comparatively
known by the whole world, but his per-
sonality is not so familiar to every one.
He quietly followed the Hon. G. b.
Lore twhose duty it was to introduce
him) with a laggard step. At first sight
he looked worn out, constitutionally
tired man. His hair is entirely gray.
He looked older than Mr.. Lore. The
comparison cannot be withheld. His
step was less elastic than his intro
ducer's. His swallow-tail coat and
baggy trousers perhaps induced the sug-
gestion OF a shuffling gait. But the
weary, fagged-out look was undeniable.
Mr.. Stanley is below medium height,
a6shouldered, and of fine physical
frame work. All color is gone from his
face. He is clean shaven but for slight
gray moustache. He has steel gray
eyes and pleasing features. His express
sion is continually changing.
All the slouchiness, however, van
ished Immediately he commenced his
address. II was like the soldiers quick
change from "stand at ease" to "atten-
ton r. Then all the Commander of
men" returned to him. He was again
the wonderful Bula Matari, the Rock
breaker, whose magnetic command led
hundreds of trustful Zanzibaris against
thousands of cotfee-colored cannibals,
and who alone was successful in cir
cumventing the willy Tippoo lib.
His style of address is most gratify-
ing surprise. How any critic could pos
sibly speak of Stanley as being con
scious or stiff in his delivery, las the
common report exists it is extremely
difficult TO comprehend. 1t is true he
used reading desk. But he did not
read. To all intents and purposes he
extemporized. His enunciation is ex-
tremely pleasing and his diction is rela-
lively irreproachable. His manner is
aided by an easy natural gesticulation.
Not for one instant was there any ces-
sation in the interest of his graphic de-
lineation. His style is remarkably pure
entirely free from excessive superlatives
and in that simple diction lay his unde.
niable power of description. This at
times was positively brilliant.
The lecturer was introduced by Mr..
Lore, who made brief reference to his
worldwide fame. Mr.. Stanley made
short, predatory reference to the strange
summons to Paris received from Mr..
Bennett of the New York
Herald. His commission 90 years ago
was to go to Alexandria,
thence to run up the Nile, to take
peep at Cairo, and then proceed for per-
haps thousand miles further up that
ancient stream to discover anything that
might be of interest to Americans. He
then was to run across to CONSTANT.
nople, on to Persia, perhaps across
Thibet to China, in fact his was a gem
eral rowing commission to see anything
and everything and report it.
1t was in 1869 he received the per-
emptcry telegram from Mr.. Bennett to
commence the search for DIR. Living
stone. He found his way to Zanzibar
But the Heratd'S letters of credit had
not reached him. He managed to get
O,0O0 by paying $4,000 discount. With
this sum he completed his expeditionary
force of two white sailors and 1856
Zanzibaris. He left the coast in March
1870 and discovered the lost missionary
at Ujiii His second journey to the
interior from Zanzibar was commenced
October 1874. In l03 days he reached
the lake Victoria Nyan2a. In dis
0rhinn fhn il,pi.,ttn ,,t,yiY, &c
Mtesa who ruled in that region the
lecturer naively lilsened the king 10
Ethelbert of England, and himself
Stanley to st. Augustine.
The next journey was for the dis
covery of what that great river was which
Livingstone had seen 200 or 800 miles
south and which had some connection
with Lake Tanganyika. There was
hot dispute among geographers of the
day whether it was the source of the
Nile, the Congo, or the Niger. 1t turned
out to be the Congo Lualaba. He fol-
lowed its course north to above the
equator, then southwest, then north
west again, until he reached the mouth
of the Congo at the western coast of
Africa. In January 1879 he was sum
moned by the king of Belgium to
Brussels to take military charge of
Congo Free State matters. Following |
that was the great commission of the |
search and rescue of Emin Pasha. |
Through the jealousy of the French and |
Germans he was unable to commence |
his expedition as usual on the eastern
coast. He quietly took steamer for the |
mouth of the Congo. There his expedi-
Iion for North Central Africa was
The terrible story of death,
destruction and daily peril was retold;
1f Bartellot's misfortune and disgrace,
md Tippoo Tib's eyasions; until after
l60 days march through the dark
,orests Of the Congo, Emin was atlength
iound prisoner. He arrived at Zanzi-
oar with Emin, December 4th, 1899,
lfter travelling 5000 miles in 9S7 days.
There are now 30 steamers on the
upper Congo. An army of $4,000 port
,rs carry the merchandise past the falls
o the lower Congo. Ten miles of rail
way have been already built. Mr.. Stan
ey estimated the relative African pos
essions of the European powers as fol-
ows: England, 2,500,000 square miles;
iermany, 100000 square miles; Bel
tium, 1,000,0O0 Italy, 100000; France,
100000, and Portugal, 100000.
1t was noticed that Mr.. Stanley gave
he following pronunciations a-shanty
Ashanteel, and pop-erus (papyrus)
The warmest applause greeted the lec-
urer as he bowed himself OFF the stage.
A New City suburb.