The Portland daily press., 1893-04-15
IN THE DARK CONTINENT.
Emin Pasha and His People Killed by
Fierce Manyemas.
FIRST REPORTS CONFIRMED by
4 THE SONOF TIPPU TIB.

Unless the Arab is Mistaken or Lying, the
Explorer Has MET His Fate-The
Romantic Story of the Austrian Ply
sician Who Held His Own in the Midst
of Savage Tribes Until Stanley's Expe-
dition Reached Him.
| ZANZIBAR, April 14.-A letter from
Tippu This son confirms the report of
the death of Emin Pash and all his pep
pie.
The report referred to in the above
despatch was sent out from Berlin under
date of April 5. A letter to the ''Ber-
liner Tageblatt'' from Kampala, Uganda,
dated December IA, 1892, reported that
two apparently authentic statements had
been received, to tho effest that E min
Paslsa the explorer, had been murdered
by the fierce Mauyemsss on the banks of
the Ituri river in March, 1892. The
| writeS sstgs,,s, kat he did not think the
| reports are wholly convincing.
| After he had reached the coast under
Stanley's protection in 1889, ,Emin entered
the German service and did valuable
work in the Lake region in East Africa, ,es-
! tablishing stations and opening relations
with the natives. He had several ambi-
| tious projects, one of which was to cross
Africa and reach the West Coast The
particulars of his movements subsequent
! to the spring of 1891 are not at hand. If
! the report of his death is true, it closes
| the story of a life of great adventure.
Emin Bey was an Austrian physician
named Schnizler, who professed the Mo-
| hammedan faith, became one of Midhat's
| advisers when that grand vizier had the
project OF introducing European reforms
| in the Sultan's dominions, and ON the
downfall of Midhat fled into Asia.
Thence he reached Suakim, made his
| way to Khartoum, in the time of Gen.
| Gordon's governorship of the Soudan,
and was made storekeeper and after
wards became surgeon-in-chief on Cor
don's staff. He was an ardent natural
| lst, and speedily became famous by his
scientific collections and his
| papers for several European societies,
Gordon found in him genius for diplo-
macy among the peoples with whom he
had to deal, and sent him on missions:
and finally made him governor of the
| equatorial provinces of Egypt with the
rank Eof bey. His administration was
| marked by signal ability, he freed the
| provinces from the slave trade and made
them return revenues instead of eat up
expenses. Had his warnings been heed
cd, the rebellion of the Mahdi would
have been crushed at the outset, the use
less sacrifices of life that eliminated in
Gordon's death at the taking of Khar-
toum would have been avoided. Emin
was left alone, with hostile tribes on every
side, against whom he held his own, main
tanning order and protecting thousands
of people from the barbarities which
have been experienced by the whole re-
gion outside of his provinces. Nothing
braver than his occupancy of this des-
perate post, deserted by the British gov
ernment, which was in every way bound
to sustain him. has been recorded. He
had about 1000 troops at the outset, and
he organized auxiliary forces of native
soldiers. He was constantly engaged in
warfare with surrounding tribes; he gar
risoned dozen river stations lying long
distances apart; but his ammunition ran
low and he lacked the money needed for
paying his small army He
nevertheless governed the coun-
try well and taught the natives how
to raise cotton, rice, indigo and coffee,
and also how to weave cloth and to make
oHooS. 0ttAuleS, Sostp dHu ulduy dfticleS OF
commerce. He vaccinate6 the natives by
the thousand in order to stamp out small
pox; he opened the first hospital known
in that quarter; he established regular
post-route, whith 40 offices; he made inn
portant geographical discoveries in the
basin of the Albert lake, and in many
ways demonstrated his capacity for gov
erning barbarous races by the methods
and standards of European civilization
Finally the world again remembered
the gallant Austrian and Stanley was
sent to find him and bring him out of
the wilds. Stanley's struggle across
Africa and his return to civilization ac-
companied by Emin are matters of too
recent history to need repetition. 1t
was soon after that Emin astonished the
world by entering the service of the
German East African Company.