New Britain herald., 1922-12-12
Go on With the Story.
CHAPTER II.

chauvannes found that wilderness
veined through with these camps, pre-.
cisely as Stanley found 1t when he was
following the Itun In his effort to re-
lieve Emin Pasffa. And Chauvannes
seems to have had precisely the same
experiences as Stanley, in that the
poisoned arrows which the dwarf
tribes used were always fatal to the
natives, but not to the white men OF
the expedition. At least, the three
white men with Chauvannes and the
explorer himself, always escaped,
while the persistent destruction of the
other members of the expedition con-
tinued until only Chauvannes and the
other white men came out alive.
THE expedition was not large. 1t
was as small as Chauvannes could get
OH with. He never intended 1t to be
more than scouting party, to lay
out the thing he was looking for. The
discovery of the emeralds was a sort
of accident in removing the portion of
an ancient wall that an uprooted tree
has dislodged."
There was a. moments silence
Then Monsieur Jonquelle went on:
Il said awhile ago that the in
credible things set out in the journal
did not begin to appear until about
the seventeenth of December, when
they had finally come out. 1t is true
that some indicatory things are noted
in the journal before that date.
Chauvannes could not sleep. He re-
turns again and again to this fact.
bromides He wonders if the drugs
to complain about the failure of the
bromides He wonders if the drugs
have lost their virtue, or If they could
not have been pure. He notes that
he tested this with one of the other
men and observed the effect. The
bromides were all right. This fact
gave him a good deal of concern.
He could not sleep. And the drugs
upon which the medical profession de-
pend in such case failed.
I'VE find this feature in consider
able detail and beginning some time.
before December seventeenth while
thes expedition was still in the forest
of Ahe Congo, in it's awful march to
the northeast. III,
Il don't know when it was that
Chauvannes realized what was ahead
of him, but as / have said, think
he saw it almost from the first day
of the march north.
II studied that journal word by
word and sentence by sentence
felt at the time that no one of us UNI
derstood it that the thing meant
something which ought to appear If
we were able to grasp a proper con-
ception Of It. l felt before it as l
used to fel before those clever Ger
man dispatches, which appeared on
their faces to be merely narrative OF
a domestic incident, when they were
in fact army orders containing a def
mite direction I was right, as events
proved, but the government authori-
ties in Paris at the time considered
my notion fantastic.
"Still, as have said the strange
iigressions in his journal did not be-
gin to appear until about the seven /
teenth of December, when they came
out onto the great grass pla-
teau outlined to the east by low
range, beneath which lay
Lake Nyanza. AS it happened, they
had come out ten days ahead OF the
date which they had determined upon
for the arrival of the lake boat. 1t
was to receive the expedition at the
same point on the Nyanza that Stan
ley met Emin Pasha.
'.Now, here was another indicatory
point. They did not 60 ahead to the
Nyanza as Stanley had done. They
,amped on grassy slope--it looked
ike an English lawn, Chauvannes
,aid-within the first days march out
# the forest. Here they remained.
"Chauvannes had all the modern
Implements that an explorer CARRIES
With him, and he laid down the exact
ocation of this camp with the most
accuracy. 1t was chart
ID ins the journal in half dozen diff
'erent forms and checked in every va
.iety of way. He seemed to have
,pent a lot of time at this. He was
determined that the exact spot of this