The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-09
A LETTER FROM DIR. ENIIN.
He Tells Of the Events That Have Kept Hi
RusY for Over a Year

AA0 4CAAS Vi thc 6NChkS AAdt nav e AxAAA
Busy for Over q Year.
Emin Pasha has written a letter to Peter
mans Mitteilungen. describing the work
done by his expedition to Central Africa
since he returned to the interior. The let
ter is dated Feb. /, this year. and was writ
ten at the German station Bukoba,
Victoria Nyanza." DIR. Emin says:
Permit me in the following lines to give
q brief survey of the work of this expedi-
ton up to the time when We are about to
leave the shores of Victoria Nyanza and
traverse q wholly unknown strip of coun-
try to the west. Toward the end of April,
1890. our caravan of six hundred men, in
Guiding fifty regulars and forty Zanzibar,
left BagamOyO, and travelled over the usual
caravan route to Mpwapwa. Various cir
cumstances made it necessary that we
should then abandon the route we had pro-
posed to take to the lake and advance, IN
stead to Tabora, where, after a few fights
with the Wahumba and WsgogO, we ar
rived on July 20.
1.-THE first days were devoted to intense
labor. Two parties had formed among the
Arabs, one of which was friendly to US,
while the other opposed our purposes. On
Aug. 4 q treaty was signed by which guar
antees were given to the Arabs for their
property. The right of free public worship
and protection for their trade were given
them, though the slave trade was forbid
den. In return for submitting themselves
TO the German authority the protection of
OtIul8uy Wd6 RuaE6ut66u tQeDl 80 long as
they showed themselves worthy of it. An
hour later. amid cheers for his Majesty the
Emperor and the usual salvOs Of artillery,
the German flag was raised over TabOra.
and thus the bulwark of the Arabs in east
Africa became German.
1--WE then began a series of negotiations
with the big native chief Stoke. who placed
himself under our protection and received
q large variety of presents to compensate
for the thefts of some German travellers in
his fnrrltnrU AT the Goma TINA naOnfio-
tioDs were opened with the Arabs in Ujji,
with the result that we received ar invita-
tion to raise the German flag over that
place, under the same conditions as in
TabOra. After completing the necessary
work of organizing the new station at
Tabora, it was the purpose of the caravan
to advance to UrambO. where Panadschsro
had been killed i'll battle by the thievish
Wangoni. and his son who was not yet of
age. was In danger OF being driven from
the country. Very important news from
the south coast of Victoria Nyanza CON-
PEELED me to change these plans, and only
q part of the expedition, under the lead Of
Lieutenant Langheld, went to Uramb0 to
restore peace there.
THE larger part of the expedition reached
UssongO on Sept. q, LETT that place on Sept.
IL. n arrived at Usambir0 on Sept. 81.
where, unfortunately. we found only the
There our carriers. whose terms of service
had; expired, renewed their contracts with
me-. DR.. Stuhlmann here took the com-
mapd of a land column. which was to
travel westward around the lake through
partly new country to Uganda. This gave
him an opportunity to mako important
corrections for the maps and to acquire
new geographical information. particularly
with regard to the extent of the western
rivers which flow into Victoria Nysnza.
We found 1t necessary to attack the slave
traders in Usukuma. on the south shore.
whose large tow DR.. Stuhlmann COM
pletely destroyed.
ION Oct. 10 / left the coast. in a Uganda
boat. and. in very bad weather, travelled
from island to island across the sea to the
southwest coast of the lake, and on Oct. 81
reached Bukoba, where. on the next
day, | made treaties with the chief, MukO-
TAM. by which he placed his country under
our protection. and gave US the right to
erect a station at his town. On Nov. 5 the
building of the preliminary settlement
was begun, and ten days later. when DR..
Stuhlmann arrived here on his return, the
building of the permanent station Was
begun. and to-day a large ammunition mag
azIne of stone is completed, and two big
tembes are completed. Our men have made
q garden, begun coffee planting, built
bridges and are accustOming the natives to
mann has written O very interesting scien-
tiic report upon his fruitful journey to
Uganda.
Lieutenant Langheld. after having
compulsory uoIchtcu tnc WaSOul, mas AZ
rived here and has taken command of this
station. As soon as the King of Karague
sends me the carriers he has promised, who
will certainly arrive within q few days,
my expedition will advance to found q sec
ond station in Karague. and then to 90 on
further to other territories"
Dr.. EmIn adds to his brief letter the as
Economical positions of quite a number of
places to the north. south and west of Vic
tOria Nyanza, as they were determined by
DIR. Stuhlmann on his recent Journey.