Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-11-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NRIST APPROACH TO ABSOLUTE'. STARVATION. tried, and hung. The trade's; without fell foul of oi all my African experience. Twenty-one per-I one another and ruined themselves. If not leek, sow- altogether succumbed in this dreadful camp." then it is surely Providence in answer to ...lien quoting from the letters of Mr Jephson good men's prayers far away. Our own stinky tells of the attack of the Mandists, the irn- people, tempted by extreme wretchedness and prisonment of Jephson and Emin, and the plot laid misery, sold our rifles and ammunition to our to trap Stanley himself, from which the letters of natural enemies. the Nanyema slave traders—true .1-phsca. saved him. "Things were in this con- &tele without the least grace in either their bodies iltiou.•' continued Mr Jephson, "when we weres, or souls. What happy influence was it that re' artlisl by the news that the Melch's People naa strained me from destroying all those concerned in weived at Ledo with three steamers and nine it? Each time I read the story of Captain Nelson's 'instals and "'Jiggers, and had established them- and Surgeon Parke' sufferings I feel vexed at my i'lveu on the site of the old static'''. Oulu gall, forbearance, and yet again I feel thankful that • their aeLeral, sent up three peacock dervishes with higher Power than man's severely eftlicted the a letter to the Pasha, demanding the instant ' cold-blooded murderers by causing them to feed 4..irrender of the country. The rebel officers seitod upon one another a few weeks after the rescue tlinm and put them in prison and decided on war. 1 and relief of Nelson and Parkes. The memory after a few days the Ms.hdists attacked and lof those days alternately hardens and unmans me. eaptured Regaf, killing five officers and numbers With the rescue of the Pasha, poor Coati, and of soldiers, and taking many women and children I those who preferred Egypt's flesh pots to the coarse prisoners, and all the stores and ammunition in plenty of the province near the Nyanziss we re:he oation were lost." Other skirmishes followed, I turned, and while we were patiently waiting the eel ultimately Emin and Jephson were released, and Idoom of the rebel was consummated. ,tit February 6, 1889, Jephson arrived at Havalle e Since that time of anxiety and unhappy outlook I Ivfas startled, Bort Mrs Stanley, to hear Mr I have been at the point of death from a dreadful Jephsen in plain, tuidonbting words, Boy, " ----gd9l-4- 1 illness. The strain had been too much, and for neet is the Pesha's worst enemy; no one keeps ! twenty-eight days I lay helpless, tended by the Rutin Praha back but Emin Pasha himself." I i kindly and skilful hand of Surgeon Parkes. ;tethered from Mr Jephson that during nine semen little by tittle I gathered strength, and .nouths neither the Pasha, Signor Casati, not any ordered the march for home. Discovery after dieman in the province had arrived nearer any other emery in the wonderful region was made. The einchmion than that which was told us ten months ! snowy ranges of Euevenzoni, the 'Hood Icing' or before. Thus—" The Pasha: If reciT people go, I 1 ' Rain Creator,' the Semliki River, the Albert go. If they -stay, I stay.—Signor asati : 1 the, Edward Nyanza, the plains of Noongora, the salt Governor gems, I go. If the Governor stays, I goy: ! lakes of Katie°, the new people—Wakonju of the --The Faithful : If the Pus" guest we go.: If tile Great Mountains, the dwellers of the rich forest Pasha stays, we stay." A week later, however, region, the Aurambit, the fine-featured Wationyora, nlin'ti Paeha anchored below the camp with two the Wanyora bandits, and then the lake Albert ~,,m. rr full of people. There the letter ends for Edward tribes, and the shepherd races of the Eastern Upland. Then Waryanteri, besides the Wanyaruwamba and the Wazinja, until at last we came to a church whose cross dominated a Christian settlement, and we knew that we had reached the outskirts of blessed civilisation." .