The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-10-15

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just, and that II properly treated
they can be made friendly and helpful
to white enterprises. 1t fell to his LOT
to direct the first attempt to carry
on trade in the region they claim az
their own and the experiment has cost
him and his comrades their lives and
has precipita'ed grave crisis; and
yet it is probable that no man on the
Congo was so well qualified as Hold
lister to pilotlsuch M enterprise. From
the mouth OF the Lomami to Stanley
Falls and Nyangwe he knew all the
Arab chiefs, and they seemed to re-
gard him as their best friend. Hehad
carried out important negotiations
with Tippu lib in behalf OF the So
ciety OF the Upper Congo. He was
the only man who had led an expe-
dition from Bena Kamba across
county to Nyangwe ana Kasongo,
and he well knew the country and the
men with whom he had to deal.
There is grave reason to fear
that this trouble began on
Lake TanGanyika and that it
may have involved this French
catholics and the English missionar-
les ut Karema, st. Louis, Mpala and
Kavala and the little anti-slavery
army in the service of the Congo state
OH the west side OF the lake under the
command of Captain Joubert and
Captain Jacques. The reasons for
solicitude with regard to these enter
prises are weighty and have been pro-
mulgated by no less authorities than
the marquis de Bonchamps, who was
at Lake Tanganyika early this year;
by A. j. Wauters, secretary OF the
Katanga syndicate and editor OF LIE
Movement Geographique, and by
officials Of the Congo state. The
troubles in Tabora have cut of com
municat;on with Tanganyika for some
months.
Joubert and Jacques for year
past have been making war on
Arab slave raiders on the shores of
the lake and have freed many slaves.
early this year Joubert also under
took to levy tax upon Arab cara
vans bringing worry from the west to
transport across, the lake and to the
sea. The Congo state officials say he
was not authorized to impose this
tax. This imrost kindled the wrath
OF Rumaliza, the powerful Arab chief
at CJji on the east side of the lake, in
April last he attacked one OF
Joubert's stations. At last nc
counts Rumaliza was pressing his
enemy hard, and the latest word
from Joubert was that his supplies
were running low, and that unless he
received speedy relief all the white
interests on the lake would e at the
mercy of the Arabs.
1t is believed ut Brussels that
Rumaliza is at the bottom of the up
rising; that he may possibly have in
fiicted no one knows what fate upon
the Tanganyika stations; that his
bands crossed Manyema to Nysngwe
and induced the Arabs there to join
them in killing the four white men
who had reached that point; and
that the insurgent force then divided,
a part going down the Congo to Riba-
Riba to destroy that post, while the
other crossed TO the Lomami and
killed all the white men but two Mt
the three stations on that river. 1t
should be said, however, that no
positive proof has been received that
Rumaliza took part in the uprising,
and the Tanganyika region may not
be involved in the CONGO revolt. 1t
is certain, however, that Muini Mu-
kara, the Arab chic: of Kasongo,
was a leading spirit in the insurrec-
ton. :.
When the news of the Hodister
disaster was carried down the Congo,
a ia az m q m ataapnar could on tbara
was grave reason to fear that the vic
torious Arabs would hasten o Rachid
at Isangi and to the chiefs at Stanley
Falls and incite them to join the re-
bellion and raid down the river, des-
troying the stations established on
it's banks. The Arab chiefs at Stan
ley Falls include q son Of Tippu lib.
The relations OF these chiefs with the
whites have long been very pleasant,
and it was hoped that they would
all temptations to revolt.
Unfortunately Tippu lib is at Ianzi-
bar. No one credits him with any
special liking for the whites. but he
has u keen eye for his own interests,
and as the most powerful and in
huential Arab in central Africa his
presence there in the present crisis
would probably be OF great value to
the Congo state While his repre-
sentatives at Stanley Falls might con
tinue friendly it was deemed quite
probable that Rachid, at the mouth
of the Lomami, would take up the
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