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Show STANLEY'S REPLY. , i THE EXPLORER TELLS THE CIRCUMSTANCES CIRCUM-STANCES OF BARTTELOT.S DEATH. A Story of Awful Cruelty Be Froposss to Fabllsh tho Log Book of the Rear Column Point From Troup' Book. ' London, Nov. 7. Troop's book adds little to what has already been published. pub-lished. Troup credits Stanley with a preconsidered idea of the causes of the disaster to tbe rear guard and with tbe rejection as untrue of any statement falling to fit that idea. He enlarges upon the difficulties of tha young and inexperienced officer, Harttelot, In dual-ing dual-ing with the wily Tippoo Tib, who Stanley himself was hardly .able to manage; In addition to keeng control over the camp of nutrves. Troup anotci letters from Stanley to Bmtielot, In which Stanley expressed distrust- of Tippo Tib. Troup says after seven and a half months hnd passed Rarttelot and a section sec-tion of tho expedition were willing to try to advance, but tbo remainder, including in-cluding himself, dissented, because Stanley had impressed upon them the importance of preserving their stores. He repeats that 'Harttelot had amplo warnings of the danger he incurred in venturing out. STANLEY'S BTATEMKIH'. New Yokk, Nov. 7. Stanley last evening received several reporters at his hotel aud talked at length about occurrences oc-currences In .Barttelot's ramp. " Tho sole cause of bis death, S un'oy said, was the major's violent torn per. Harttelot Hartte-lot beat the Arab in a horriole manner with a stick. Early on the morning of July 19 he was awakened by loud singing sing-ing and the beating of drums. Ruing informed that it was the African custom in saluting the rising tun, he said with an oath that he would shoot the first person that refused to stop tho noise, and taking a revolver went out. Near tho chief's hut he found a woman who was singing, and meu drumming. The woman was the wife of the chief and when he commanded her to cesse singing sing-ing she paid no attention. Harttelot then struck and kicked her. Ilr husband, hus-band, the chief, took down his rillo and killed Harttelot on the spot. From such reports as he oould obtain, ob-tain, Stanley said that Harttelot made himself very distasteful to tbe natives. He had a habit of ridiculing them, which provoked them verv much. "For these reports I don't rely on Honney. Both the Arab ar.d the native chief went over the matter. The very minute log book of the camp signed by Harttelot, Hartte-lot, Jameson, Honuey and Ward, was simply one account of remorseless flogging flog-ging and inhumanity.. Harttelot even kicked his own attendant, a little boy, and he died from the injuries Inflicted." Referring to Troup, Stanley said when he got to Zanzibar one of the first things he found was a long letter from Troup, violently abusing Hartto-lot. Hartto-lot. "I never answered the letter," said Stanley, "because it needed a personal per-sonal interview, as there were many questions I found it necessary to auk him myself, the principal one being why he and others preferred to remain and starve at Yam buy a instead of moving on. I never could get a satisfactory answer from Bonney, and hoped to get one from Troop. 1 receive! another letter from him and answered that if he would revise it 1 would publish It, as it contained many things unfit for publication. pub-lication. He was so obstinate that be would not revise it, and sent it back, demanding that I should publish it. I did not. Then Troup wrote me a threatening letter stating that I would bave to be prepared to meet such measures meas-ures as he might see fit to employ to vindicate himself. I wrote him, saying that if he thought be was malinged to go ahead. "I bat e been reading Troup's two letters and Ward's account which I received, re-ceived, and, more important than all, I have the log book signed by tbe o flier day after day. Without any other evidence evi-dence that log book of itself would prove that I was justified in my ensure of the rear column, which was very mild in my letter to the committee. Am I going to publish that log" I cannot say. I think it better to wait awhile, or'until I have read Troop's book." Stanley, when he return to F.ngland, may bring action for lilmX agrainit Barttelot's Bart-telot's brother in order to bave tbe matter sifted to tbe bottom. |