The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-12-12
CHAPTER IL


-Cnanvanncs found that wilderness
veined thru with thcss camps. pre-
sissiy a. Stanley found Il when he
was following the ltuEt In his effort
20 relieve Emin PashA And ChAn-
vannes seems 70 have had precisely
the same experiences as Stanley. Ia
that the poisoned arrows. which tho
dwarf tribes used. were always fatal
20 the natives. but not 20 the white
men Of the expedition At least. the
three white men with ChauVanneA
and the explorer himself. always cs-
capped. while the persistent destruc-
ton OF tho other members OF the
expedition continued until only chau-
vannes and the other white men
came out alive.
The expedition was not large. II
was as small as Chauvannes could
get on with. He never intended u
60 be more than a scouting party. 10
lay out the thing he was hooking
for. The discovery OF the emeraids
was sort OF accident In removing
the portion OF an ancient wall that
an unrooted tree had disiodged.~
There was n moments silence.
Then Monsieur JonQueile went on.
Il said awhile ago that the tn
credible things Get out IN the Journal
did not begin 10 appear until about
the nth OF December. when they had
finally come cut. II Il true that some
indicatory things are noted In the
tcurnai before that date. Chauvannes
could not sleep. lie returns again
and again TO this fact Bromides did
no good lie continues 80 complain
about tho failure Of the bromides. lie
wonders n the drugs have lost their
virtue. or II they could not have bs~n
pure He notes that he tested this
with enc OF the other men and OBJ
served the effect. The bromides
were all right THIS fact gave him
good deal Of concern. He could no,
sleep. And the drugs upon which
the medical profession depend In such
CASE. failed
I'VE find this feature In consider
able detail and beginning some time
before December II. while the expe-
dition Was ztili in tho forest OF the
Congo. In It's awful march 20 tho
northeast
4 don't know when n was that
Chsuvannss realized what was ahead
Of him. but as have said. ! think
he saw u almost from the first day
OF the march north.
7 studied that Journal word by
word and sentence ~ sentence
felt at the tine that no one % vs.
understood II. that the thing meant
something which ought 20 appear n
we we're able 10 grasp a proper con-
cepfior Of u. felt before u "a
used TO feel before those clever Ger
man Dispatcher which appeared on
their faces 10 b merely a narrative
Of . domestic incident. when they
were tn fact army orders contain
Ing q definite direction. I was right.
~ events proved. but the govern
meat authorities Ia Paris At the time
considered my notion fantastic.
-still. as I have Eaid. the strange
digressions tn his Journal did not be-
gin 70 appear until about the f7th
Of December. when they came out
into the great sraas-covered plateau
outlined 10 the east by low noun
tain range. beneath which lay Lake
Albert Nyanxa- As II happened. they
had come out 10 days ahead Of tho
date which they had determined upon
for the arrival Of the lake boat. IL
was 70 reccivs the expedition ut the
Same point on the Nyanxa that stan
ley met Ernin pasha-
Now. here was another indscafory
point. They did not 80 ahead 10
the Nyanza as Stanley had done.
They camped on grassy slope--it
looked Hike an English lawn. Chau-
sannes said-wfthin thu first days
march out Of the forest Here they
remained
-Chauvannes had all tho modern