The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-12
sso.n Here Today.


--rnT If men We're seated on
I0c ,rt.ye Mansion. 1t was even
I'D the great statesman, hunter,
n and now Chief Executive
S2.o,. ..srmg attentively to the story
r. lorquelle, greatest of French
..-'mna VAS tell of Chauvannes,
.' an tne world believed mad and
had died in Africa leaving the
s.rf,l diary and the emeralds he
4 4 discovered.
.o r rbaYyannes was not mad in
s " .Ionaculle. Then he told
che explorers record described
,,nrrey into the Congo with three
t.ts men. worthless but afraid of
" Go on With the Story.
CHAPTER II.
,,,o,auras found that wilderness
r.3 through with these camps,
l...sa,v as Stanley found 1t when
mas FLOWING the Ituri in his eff
l. f., relieve Emin Pasha. And
I,ny2nneg seems to have had pre-
|s.y the same experiences as Stan
in that the poisoned arrows.
a the dwarf tribes used, were
ave fatal to the natives, but not
-e white men of the expedition.
Inst. the three white men with
uvsmHcs, and the explorer him
Z always escaped, while the per-
|sr. destruction Of the other
I-.srs Of the expedition continued
| MI only Chauvannes and the other
% men came cut alive.
The expedition was not large. 1t
l, as small as Chauvannes could
on with, He never intended it
ts more than a scouting party. to
out the thing he was looking
The discovery of the emeralds
sort Of accident in removing
i poru9p Of an ancient wall that
gprootcd tree had dislodged."
IRE was Il moments silence. Then
raaur Jonquelle went on:
said awhile ago that the incred-
things set out in the journal did
/ begin 10 appear until about the
|M-ecuth Of December, when they
4 finally come out. 1t is true that
b. .adicatory things are noted in
Sarnal before that date. Chau-
|nM could not sleep He returns
a and again to this fact. Bro
" did no good. He continues to
tDIaiu about the failure of the
|midcs He wonders if the drugs
os, their virtue, or if they could
have been pure. He notes that
tested this with one of the other
and observed the effect. The
|ndcs were all right. This fact
him a good deal of concern, He
q not sleep. And the drugs upon
IN the medical profession depend
Such a case, failed.
We find this feature in consider
I detail and beginning some time
he December seventeenth while
axpedition was still in the forest
aa Congo, in its awful march to
g6rtheaSt.
don't know when it was that
Uannes realized what was ahead
I'm, but as have said, 1 think he
IL almost from the first day of
march north.
studied that journal word by
BID and sentence by sentence. I
J, al the time that no one of us
6arsood IT, that the thing meant
ne,hng which ought to appear if
were able to grasp proper con-
zion a. ir. l felt before it as l
j to fee. before those clever Ger
% dispatches. which appeared on
r. faces TO he merly a narrative of
domestic incident, when they were
fact army orders containing a
rts direction. | was right, as
4 nts proved, but the government
h0rjtcs in Paris at the time con-
cred my notion fantastic.
SILL as 1 have said, the strange
lessons IN his journal did not be-
to appear until about the seven
9TH Of December, when they came
onto the great grass covered
eau outlined to the east by a low
1taiu range, beneath which lay
Albert Nyanza. AS it happened,
! had come out ten days ahead of
date which they had determined
for the arrival of the lake boat.
Was TO receive the expedition at
" y
ay met Emin Pasha.
IgW here was another indicatory
They did lot go ahead TO
Ayauza as Stanley had done.
y c1mpcd on a grassy slope-it !
I'D like an English lawn, Chau-
..s said-withjn the first days
a out Of the forest. Here they
fAHed
@lvannes had all the modern
snents that an explorer carries |
him. and he laid down the exact /
ION OF this camp with the most !
stalking accuracy. 1t was chart |
The journal in half a dozen diff |
%. forms and checked in every |
Wy OF way He seemed to have !
lot Of time at this. He's was !
mined that the exact spot of this |
should be definitely located for |
""e and beyond any possibility |
."or And he did not fail. The |
location OF that camp is as !
' as any boundary rlOnuhlc1t |
10, Belgian frontier. 1t can be |
ia today within the error of half
.H lie had plenty of time for
BECAUSE he remained in this
win Lecture while the other
went on to the Nyanza.
u" route to the lake could not be
WY To the eye. 1t was directly
marked rocky promotory Of
ANNE But the men with Chau-
thought it better to be certain
way out, and as they had 10
'"e time until the boat ar
J., seemed advisable to go o'ICr
The American beachcom-
"a ana the Finn set out for the
.y 1''U'c remaining in the camp
laauNamcs.
was here alone with Lecture that
'.e' finished the journal,
'holly decided, as one might
''e Seryice de la Surete in
.,1 S3n That the only thing in
O"1uNanues' condition be-
" Seventeenth of December,
,.-. 'lna out on the old ele-
r"0" l"to this heavenly coun-
by" .1r Albert, was the fact
.'.i not sleep and that the
r. 'ld Jailed him. But tlls was
,jc,. ALL The journal began