Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-24

e and reached the mouth Of the Congo on
i viii not describe to you our march TO
stanley FOOL. and our Journey up the
Congo river In the King Of the Belglans
little slxty-feet long steamers, mon how
IL was found necessary, owing to the in
sufiieient portcrage, to divide the eNpedi-
ton Suffice II TO say that we arrived
at Yamhuya. native village at the loot
of the Aruwiml catnracts, with the adj
vance portion Of the expedition, and found
there a strong. intrenched camp. The
feeling in Great Britain, however, was so
strnnr i'm its anxiety about the fate OF
EmIn Pasha, and the fear that the eXpe-
ditun, as In the case Of Gordon, would be
too late, that Mr. Stanley dared not be
deaf to the forebodings of the English
people whose one cry was; Hurry on, or
you will be too late
He therefore decided to leave Major
Barttelot in charge Of the intrenched
camp. with a certain number of men as
a garrison, and to push on with n small
number OF Europeans and Hanzlharis to
carry a first instalment OF ammunition to
Emln Pasha, while Major Barttelot as
soon az Tlppoo Tibb'a porters arrived.
was 10 leave Yambnya and follow on our
track ON June Is MFR. Stanley, accom-
panied by Stairs, Nelson, Parke and my
self. together with 800 ZanEibarls. left
Yambuya and plunged at once intO the
depths Of the forest. We had with us six
riding donkeys, but the Jungle was so
thick that we were never able to use
them; and with the exception OF one. Of
which l shall speak hereafter, they
all soon died, as there was no grass In the
forest for them to eat We had brought
with us steel boat In sections, which
was given into my ell and was looked
after by my company.
The point Mr., Stanley intended to make
q, .sff all 81 10
southwest corner OF Lake Albert Syanza.
Our course. Therefore. was almost due
east owing, however, to the country
being covered by dense and almost i'm
penetrable forest, We We're obliged to fol-
low native paths or cut our way through
the thick underground. We were often
marching and working from six In the
morning until six at night. and sometimes,
after having marched twenty miles, we
found that, owing to the detOurs we We're
Obliged to make in order to avoid the
swamps, rivers or impenetrable bush, we
had only made one mile on our right
course.
on starting from Yambuya we believed
this Jungle to be nearly a belt, some iif-
teen or twenty days march broad on
each side Of the river. and that beyond
lay the open country. For a time the
native footpaths were practicable, but
difficulty soon began to present Itself from
foot In tblcEnses wblrb Intsrl,ced mem
eni,ss in , NOT ,,,ori. AZ arches ,cr,ss no
Path. and had to be cut away with hatch
cts. MIR, Stanley, with forty men, carry
ing hatchets and blll-ho0Ks to cut a path
through the bush. led the way. This ad-
men OF Inc thre. other comnanies rnd
enrh ~ ne onicars to1l, IL In iurn ~ t,ira
charge Of the roar puard ana nravont ~,
men as much as possible from tagging be-
hind; for to lag behind in this forest snr-
rounded by hostile natives meant certain
death.
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We're boeet 1,, a51,h,,Snd,ios Iiiu we
savapes who attached Us ~, .,.i,r,,
side. We had TO make orr ,yn,y tbroufb
long chains Of VILLAGES irbnt,i,a'i h,.
tsemIng nnd hostile nnn,,ia,ion - a
,ie,,i"e ,hat ,bo ra,t,,is n,,,,ia Ete,y
innedo tho ndvonce ~ tho cara,,, ~ W
adnnte1 near ,,Itf,iIs ,,,a,o a.. "n W." ~,
road and nos were GiioI ,,it VII u" tne
snIltos the bnIas haino ,,,,,I, IT, 'nHlP
cealed nv leaves sbarn and rSlsonaa
,t,p,',.,'.,. rs Snip anu poisoned
.i,1 "uis WI "!Su STUCK N the pain ana
800, ,, ~. u'e t5e' ol our men the
500 ~ 'hu MIuliu" was terrible, Tor
~ ~ sphes Mou'i frequently remain In
- ~ "e .s a'Iwns the Nurseries OF the root,
~. W,s,,'ty aus isIHe' EahErenons
man ,,,ar. go ,,t,,,tgl H. =, - ''N''s'
ha -, etipP'su III thls way as TO
,,rea,,t 20 ul'u"iS 70 Walk. Az inc APP
v s,,.',o ~ ''uh 'Iiuse mere was usually
I'M ,,ari1s -, 80, 80 gu pa1h"ay' ABOUT
tLt -, 'T,'H ~ ,uuI gurus Wlue' ana
' siiis m"9 httIahy priAtIhg WIN these
~, ~, which were always arfully hid
Iem from slghL me proper paths led
ROUND IN considerable detour, but these
pfoad' straight paths were made to have
a most inviting aspect and our men at
first attempted to use them, until ex-
perience taught them that thew ,yare
merely traps. We officers, Of course.
wore boots, and We're rot In such danger
Of being wounded as were our men v,bo
walked barefoot: but such was the meme
tratlng quality Of these skewers, thai n
was more by good luck than anvtbing
else that we ourselves were not famed
AZ the entrance Of each village a native
sehlry would be placed with a drum, to
S ,S,u OUT an affirm on our approach.
flnuihs the river was flowing tolerably
wen IA our course, by Mr. SANKEY'S order
Put me bcat together, and we found
! OF measurable service; for not only did
SunNSy number of our sick and
"oa''teu; put II also carried ton of
ai'iiIuIIt,oh, we further ndded to our
lneuns OF transport by collecting such
sa.'oes as we found abandoned by the
nn,Ees, VINO usually cltared out of their
images on our approach and merely at
s $500 stsut slers or people going out In
5eatcn OF rood, etc. We collected the
.ttisest cahees we could find and dashed
snein Two ana two together with poles
~ Vluer 70 make them more safe. for UNI