New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-17
CMIN'S LAST DISPATCHES.
FOUND AND SENT TO ENGLAND.
HIS DEATH CoRROBORATED by An OFFICER or
THE EUROPEAN EXPEDITION.
From The London Standard


which have just arrived by mail in England The
letters fun details of which append below;
TO the expedition to his father in this country III
them the writer states that ne found in Nyansns
in Emin Pacha's own handwriting in German
The Whole OF them have been translated by him
to this Country 1t win be seen from these com
gagged in several campaigns with the AraD mix,
stormed and taken on the 4th of March last, the the
Arabs losing upward of 800 men: as compared
with one or two Europeans killed The hr'l le''s'
from the officer is as follows:
at the Iualaba. near Nyansue
February 3. 1885 The above Is our position ON
opposite Nyangue. the Arab capital where al.
their forces are in nby big battles
and several small ones We have been her
!Nysngue, since January y and are num ssn came time
fight almost all day and every daE. ~, All
C %r' Which h Ho Oh n9nS
utes' quiet We four officers take II III .hrmuoS
awful swamps. which makes it hard wolk lain, 70 hv
here. although it is only mile iiOdls,9 LAW" nv
months ago We are only about a month I'm
distance) from Ktansanika her IL T so,s,,s and
ONE hundred men are beseiged there by the Arabs
This party is the and even after the big
battle at the Iumani we never ~ If Savin Moiba
had not marched to attack and got k ,hG gem
February IL spoiled the shooting in 81 d e"e Not
having fired for an hour while writing ne tnoHgn n
i had gone, and came out OF ms hoie ~' trnnchns
dred wards Off Though we nave no u rem w.
and while firing no cover at all, we have had Lew
casualties The health OF The h men nbo has seTve NTH
STANLEY Wissmann and Cameron They are De Ge-
m nssns ~ smalipox Every man builds house
every night the road. The women carry an ui1
a nnS fe ru On the road the only carry gun
and two hundred cartridges, long KNIFE anu no.. d
Ynsr II q man is sick, the women carry even
these In this way made a march OF seven
DAYS without seeing living tnng or Dii o IoUs'
mo
Decommenc, who has just gone nome rom ulS
witbout food and the whole expedition lost eighty
seven per cent of their soldiers anu n, hill i ~
had no women. our strength is about three nun
dred and eighty soldiers, and three hundred por-
February Fittings remain much the same;
The Arabs have been over twice at night ana
tried to scare us \ refugee came in to-day ana
ana intend to attack us one of these nights IL
is foolish move on thsir paT WE NE i hIET ep
demc in London. one of our canoes has been mn
over the water in a day or two. just got a bullet
through my hat. Better the hat than the head
have ink again. Each has got bottle OF
wine and pound Of sugar so we are said grf h
Nyangue is nearly empty. and that only lew
slaves Wese left on the Island as ' sy f Sa 50 as the
night attack failed. the Arabs have decided T.; 10
the middle of the paiaver fall on us. That is how
they succeeded with Hodistors party. 1t viii be-
The second dispatch. dated Nyangue April last.
is in the following terms:
I'VE are still here waiting for renorcementS ana
cartridges TO attack Kassongo, town well fortlned
and big this. where all the Arabs are co
lected. 1t is just four days march from here We
are as YOU know. about twenty days good march
ing from Lusambo. The reinforcenents are now
fifty-seven days arrived al LusamDo; ana we 10
not know what they are playing at. Ihey kn9" W.
have scarcely 300 men left and not 100 rounds per
there about 1000 men on foot TO resist the AiaO
movement and we have with scarce 4oV men ut-
feated the Arabs in five big battles and after SIX
weeks siege taken Nyangue. the captdl, 20 tleIe
Column on The march would not object to have
tbe pleasure of rescuing or avenging Us We are II
Now. after three weeks rest I'm Nyansue' We cahno,
believe WE have y1Sceede MensHe nat Gn
trenched-mud walls loopholed-and you know me
Arab houses some dried brick in hollow square
each side thirty forty yards long. and loOpholSd
In Nyangue itself | counted over 200 houses Ike
would have lost all our men taking one house on
j forgot to tell you about the battle OF the Lualapa
of the 10Th | had hot time. My bOdyguard OF
fifteen men had two killed ana five wounded. The
Arabs had given orders to hrr mTm 10 mn e "a sn1
take them with their knives and lances. Another
white man and | got suddenly into the nead OF thv
Arab column. We do not know how. We had only
about sixty men to them and wHre ism g,1 10
guides. supposed to be friendly. in front. me rcau
was only two feet wide, and we were blocked by me
t w., "a r,ebt-left Of buck from the twelve
bo ENs and the whole front line went down This let
them see De Woturs not alone tour men
T mere k nTlnf lot couple Of hundrei yards in
rear. one big Arab caught soldier ana wa ~ az az,
gng him off by the belt but the soIier lopiei W,
his hand with his knife. Then fired iwenty,srven
cartridge from my RE Tepe8g r Every shot to be his
last. De Woturs and were then about ten 3 sn,
the rush behind him. being fully engaged IN ron ron
After when he saw the corps,ss, ne s.u, IL H.
is splendid fighting CHAP, but VII set kliTG one ~,
Of these days for he Is not quite COO enoh W. -,
shoot he should floor leader every time rs "A
good example for the men nave Olteil ' ous'a,
In Of of
Won said to me-'Don't fire at man II you can
p pSsed a Tom had though, nscesy at
If YOU do don't miss him IememDer you S"Id n. -
me when | going to school hIst NY DoS up Hi
you ever hit man unless you mean 10 h''ocN MN
down. and never have 49,. oo, ,ot,ers from
the Inspector of state lie came out g %n The h
and has the direction Of hod he on an ANY, pce as he
was sending every man he could mustsr TO ne nP
,hst he was sure that with these forces Nyan8ue
coId not hold out long. We took Nyangue next
nr3m,sed endorsements Strange TO say. till those
letters arrived did not know whether We sno W.
10 nraised or blamed for what We had done We
knew Tippoo lib was probably IN EuroP OPP ai h
might arranged the wh9 here ai h G M after
we took Nysngue. sent his dispatches to lsurope' -
ssM v' here, and what do you think it was?-
piphirc less than Emn Pachas journal and letters
. Ana a. 'uV VINO understands German an the
letters are in the German lanSuasei no" Tii os
cnn,rv save the Governorship to the East African
Company. Ills ues'ii - "a =, Sen,e,nher lsi2
90 % a matter of fact. he was awe ana Wen
.i,bo"t an idea of danger, on october H. 49, as
one OF his letters was written to rroessor dnT G o
on that date He was then at the l-ualaDa anu Oh
,h. rosd 10 Stanley Falls, a few days from mere,
n was Momemoira Cor Moharra see tney " fac,
n ne III had the blood OF most Of the whites on ms
back He was halfbred Arab ana ro oe rih a
SShting man in Central Africa. Ippoo LID az
wavs acknowledged that he Was more powerful nr
than he cTippoo Tib). We kiliea Mo"a'i" vi
december o. in the big battle
"anyu 1, IS93-Ietters for months OF July
October december and January arrived WIN Win, iV fnr
Sorcemenfs Yesterday 900 mem. we start no, LOT
Kassjneo n bigger town that this tomorrow. a "c
Arabs are making 1t strong for their iast aris
"Apri 26.-In the battle we hhu '""' '"e -
lost 800 or so of their number.