The herald., 1895-05-14

to be as near civilization as possible at
the outposts of the country of the MahdI.
at would take volume to tell all that
| did III Berber. and Metasumeh on the
Nile during 1885 and 1856 in my efforts to
get news f:om Neuieldt. Three times in
two years / heard from him through es-
capped slaves. He was kept in heavy
chains for months. and had lived in filth
and squaor as hostler among the
Mahdi's camels. He had seen several OF
his companions in slavery deliberately
killed before his eyes, ana he knew no
possible way to escape.
In 1887 Mr.. Cole became convinced
that, single handed and alone. he could
never do his friend any good by remain
ing in Berber. 1t seemed to him then
that the only way to accomplish his end
was TO interest capital in behalf of the
captive and that perhaps an escape from
bondage might be made through the slave
trade in ths Soudan. So he worked hard
and saved money enough to 60 back to
England. There he found little or no in
crest in the story he told of the slavery
of his friend and not pound could be
raised for the relief of the prisoner. After
more months OF work he came to Amer
lea. still keepin. the idea OF the rescue of
his friend before him. Coyle came to
California in the summer OF 1888. He
knew of several English friends who were
in Los Angeles county and he knew there
was large number OF rich Englishmen
in the state. The boom of that year also
attracted his attention. This seemed
grand field in which to earn money and,
at the same time. interest people IN hi s
plans for the liberation of Dr. Neufeld
and others.
Financial disaster overcame Mr. Coyle
and he was Obliged to alter his mode OF
livelihood several times. In 1891 he in
terested Claude p. Johnson. then a we'll
to-do young newspaper writer and bust
u htGy nl,A sulr Il
scheme. and after weeks OF talk and much
study of maps and the mass of informa-
t ion that Mr.. Coyle had gathered on the
subject of Egypt and the Soudan. they
decided to start for Cairo. and then with
capital that Johnson was to furnish to go
up the Nile and enter the Soudan after
months had been spent IN getting ready
for so hazardous an expedition. The late
James w. Scott of the Chicago Herald
agreed to pay $500 for each letter that
Johnson should send him for publication
from the Soudan. and there were similar
agreements for like services from other
American newspapers.
Johnson and Coyle went to Cairo in
June, 1891, but found that it wGs utterly
impossible to go up the Nile, or, indeed,
to proceed for any distance from Cairo
because of The cholera that was raw
aging the district and fearing i'm
mediate arrest ana punishment if
the laws against going out into the
Arab district were disobeyed. Six months
were: spent in waiting in Cairo for a fa
vorable time to move up the river. but it
all came to naught. The travellers came
back to Pomona. and from that time to
this Coye has been as busy as ever plan
ming another trip to Cairo. and an expc-
dition from there up the Nile to Berber,
and thence to the Soudan.
Mr.. Coyle has been running hotel in
Pomona saving every dollar possible with
this determination in view. He is re-
ported to have interested worthy midi
vidual whose name is not divulged, in his
story, and the two some time between
this and July will start for Egypt and
the Soudan. The expedition for up the
Nile will be fitted up out at Cairo. where
also the two men will be Joined by a
picked company of hardy young men ac-
customed to the hardships and the ter
rifle heat of the Upper Nile country.
The companions in the expedition will
60 largely for the glory there will be in
says Mr.. Coyle, IAN inspired only by a
zeal to keep my vow to the best man |
ever knew. and to do what the British
government has shamefully left undone
for q decade"