Show IN AFRICAN WILDS Facing n Flight of Poisoned Arrows A BRUTAL MURDER AT SEA The Captain and Mate of the Bark St Andrews Accused of Killing a Norwegian Sailor LOXDOX April 2Henry M Stanleys letter dcs ribes an encounter between Yambunga and Albert Nyanza I goes much into detail and is very interesting The expedition which consisted of BID officers of-ficers and Tien started from Yambunga on June 2S 1SS7 On the first day the expedition expedi-tion marched twelve miles along the riverbank river-bank to Yaknarde During the next six days the expedition marched inland in an easterly direction through a densely populated popu-lated district The natives used every art known to them to molest and impede the advance of the party but although several conflicts took place the party did not lose a man From July 4 until October IS he followed the left bank of the Aruwhim On August 1 the first death occurred the cause being dissentery So far for thirtyfour days the course had been singularly successful The party now entered a wild country in their next days march through which their sufferings ferings multiplied and several deaths occurred oc-curred On August la on arriving at Aio sibbia the natives presented a bold front and the party lost five men from poisoned arrows August 13 the expedition met a party of Manyemas and their misfortunes began on this date Within three days of this meeting meet-ing twentysix men deserted What Stanley discribes as an awful month began on September IS Leaving the station of the Arab Chief Ugarrava when the expedition expedi-tion numbered G men having lost sixty six by dersertion and death and having left ninetysix sick with Ugarrava which led to the Arab settlement of Kalinga Long The men lived on wild fruits fungi and nuts Before reaching Kilinga Longa Stanley lost fiftyfive men through starvation and desertion A slave owner at King Longa tried his utmost to ruin the expedition short of open hostilities He insisted on his purchasing rifles ammunition and clothing so that the expedition left the station beggard The men were absolutely naked and were so weak that they were unable to carry the boat Stanley was therefore obliged to leave the boat together with seventy loads 1 r Jett 3 fagoe of goods at Kilinga Longa under the care of Surgeon Parke and Captain Nelson the latter or whom was unable later to march After a twelve days journey the party on November 2 reached Ibwiri The Arab devastation which had reached within a few miles of Ibwiri was to thorough that not a native hut was left standing between Yaarrava and Ibwiri What the Arabs did not destroy the elephants ele-phants destroyed turning the whole region into horrible wilderness Stanley continues Our sufferings terminated at Ibwiri We were beyond the reach of destroyers We were on virgin soil the region abounding with food We ourselves were mere skeletons and a halt was therefore ordered for the purpose pur-pose of recuperating From 2S9 persons we now numbered 174 suffering had been so awfui calamities so numerous and forests so endless that our people refused to believe we would see plains and c att e the Nyanza and Emin Pasna lhey had turned a deaf ear to our prayers and entreaties and driven by hunger and suffering they sold their rifles and equipments for a few ears of Indian corn Perceiving that mild punishment would be of no avail I resorted to the death penalty pen-alty and two of the worst cases were hanged in the presence of all We waited for thirteen days at Ibwiri Supplies were inexhaustible and our people glutted themselves them-selves with such effort that we had 143 sleek and robust men When we started for Albert Nyanza November 24 we were still 120 miles from the lake Given food the distance seemed nothing On December De-cember 5 we emerged upon the plains leaving the deadly and gloomy forest behind us After 100 days of continuous gloom we saw the light of broad day shin ing all around making all things beautiful The men literally leaped and yelled with joy and raced over the ground with their burdens On the 9th we entered the ground of the powerful chief Mazambini The natives sighted us but we were prepared The war cries were terrible from hill to hill pealing across the intervening valleys val-leys People gathered in hundreds hun-dreds at every point war horns and drums announcing the struggle After a slight skirmishing ending in our capturing captur-ing a cow the first beef we had tasted since we left the ocean the night passed peacefully fully row both sides preparing for the mor rowHere Stanley narrates how negotiations with the natives failed how a detachment of forty persons led by Lieutenant Stairs and another of thirty left Zareba and assaulted as-saulted and carried the villages driving the natives into general route The march was resumed on the 12th There were constant light fights all along the route On the afternoon of the 13th says Stanley we sighted the Nyanza with Kaval the objective point of the expedition expedi-tion six miles off I had told the men to prepare to see Nyanza They murmured and doubted When they saw Nyanza below them many came t kiss my hands We were now 5200 feet above sea level and 2900 above the Albert Nyanza After a short halt to enjoy the prospect we commenced a ragged and stormy descent Before the rear guard had descended one hundred feet the natives from a plateau poured after them keeping the rear guard busy until within a few hundred feet of the Nyanza plain We afterwards af-terwards approached the village of Kokongo situated at the southwest corner of Albert lake There three hours wero spent by us in attempting to make friends but we signally failed They would not exchange the hand of brotherhood because they never had heard of any good people coming from the west side of the lake They would not ac ceptany presents from us because they did not know who we were but they would jive us water to drink and show us the road up to YyamSassic From these singular people we learned they had heard here a a whioe man at Ridgoo but they had never heard of any white man being on the west side nor had they ever seen any steamers on the lake We were shown a path We camped about half a mile from the lake and they began to consider our position My couriers from Zanzibar had evidently not arrived or Emin Pasha with his two steamers would have paid the southwest sido of the lake a visit to prepare the natives for our coming My boat was at Kilinga Longa 190 miles distant and there were no canoes obtainable obtain-able There was no plan feasible except to retreat t Ibwiri and build a fort and send a party back to Kilinga Longa for a boat and store up every load in he fort not conveyable and leave a garrison gar-rison in the fort to hold it and march back to Albert lake and send a boat in search of Emi Pasha This was the plan which after a lengthy discussion with officers I resolved upon On January 7 wa were in Ibwirri once again After a few days rest Lieutenant stairs with 100 men was sent t Kilinga longa t bring a boat and goods On the return of Stairs with the boat and goods ho was sent to Ugarrava He was t bring up the convalenscents Soon I si after his departure I was attacked by gastritis gas-tritis and an abscess on the arm After a months careful nursing I recovered and setout carfu rcovere out again for Albert Nyanza on April 2 accompanied ac-companied by Josephson and Parke A garrison was left at Fort Bodo On April At we arrived in Mozambinis country again This time after some hesitation Mozam bini decided to make blood brotherhood with me His example a followed by all the other chiefs as far as the Nana Every difficulty seemed now to be removed re-moved food was supplied gratis When one days march from Nyanza natives came from Kavali and said a white man named Molejja had given their chief a packet to give to me his son They remained with us that night telling us wonderful stories about big chiefs etc which left no doubt upon our minds that the white man was Emln Pasha Next days march brought us to Chief Kavali He handed me a note from Emin Pasha to the effect that there had been a native rumor that a white man had been seen south of the lake How far west beyond the Congo the forest for-est reaches Stanley does not know The superficial extent of the tract described above is totally covered and is 240000 squai e miles North on the Congo betweeijUpsoto and Truwhimi the forest embracesanother 20000 miles Between OOO square mies umbaga and Usanza Stanley came across five distinct languages at a distance of fifty miles from the camp On the Nyanza they saw a mountain probably 17000 or 18000 feet in height above the sea the summit covered with snow I is called Rueyenzori and will prove a rival to Veliwarriro Tue natives who had seen the lake to the south agreed that it is large but not so large a the Albert Nyanza Emin Pasha ails two battalions of regu lars the first consisting of 750 rifles and the second of C40 Besides these he has a respectable force of irregulars In conversation with Stanley Emin said if he consented to go away from there they would have nearly 10000 men with them Emin was much worried to know how al the women and children numbering over two thousand could be brought away He and Stanley discussed the matter at great length but reached no conclusion Emin said the Egyptians of whom he had 100 men besides their women and children would be very willing to leave and he would be glad to bo rid of them as they undermine his authority and nullify his endeavors for a retreat When he informed them that Khartoun had fallen and Gordon Pasha was slain they told the Nubians it was n concocted con-cocted story and that some day the steamers steam-ers would ascend the river to their1 relief The men proposed after Stanleys departure de-parture to visit Fort Bodo Stanley says in conclusion that instructed the Officers at the fort to destroy it and accompany him to Albert Nyanza |