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Show ASSA.B rABJaa-i'a LETIXR. 8laal--a Bear Cnard Left Bssll-Ikl- That Cannibal Stair. BosroK, Nov. 22. In July, 1853, Assad Fa-ran, tbe Syrian Inter-pre Inter-pre ter-with Stanley's rear guard, wrote a letter to Mr. Camp, en. gineet of the Upper Congo steamer Heed, the property of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, describing tbe events transpiring in tbe Stanley expedition, with special reference to the rear guard under Major Barttelot The letter Mr. Camp sent to Mr. Lewis, Baptitt missionary at Lukuugu. Mr. Lewis, in turn, sent a copy to Rev. Ed- want T? Mprrimnn. amlatsnt fnrnlf-n secretary of tbe society in Bcstoo, and is now published for the first time. The letter is as follows: Lukusou, August 1, 1SS?. Dear Brother Merrlaui Below is a copy of a statement sent mo by Brother Camp, with a n quest that I snd you a copy! "IIx ing been engaged In Mr, Stanley'"; Stan-ley'"; expedition as an interpreter ttfroucli Africa, I Miall be clad to give sonic information about it. Mr. Man-ley's Man-ley's idea was that it would bike liiui ix months to rca4i Emiii Pj-Ict. six months to relieve him and Kttic MV affaire and six months to pi back. WhenMr. Stanley nrricii at iiinzibnr he took COO men from there to larry loads and twenty servant loyn. With tbc-e, and eixty boadanc-w soldier", whom be engaged in liOPt a,H' '',,r" tcn men from Aden, two inicrprtten and len white men. ho started the expedition. ex-pedition. Before ho left Zaozihar an engagement was made with Tippo Till that tic Khouldgi ohim six hundred men "when thev arrived at btanley KalL. The expedition went as Dras"aro-winirhcr; Dras"aro-winirhcr; there they made a strong canlp and Mr. btanfey, after staging there a week, took six Hundred men and tit c omcers ami lei. mo rest at that camp in charge or Major Barttelot. Bartte-lot. "Mr, Stsnlcv left Yanbuya camp ou the -5th or Jnnf, 1SS7; promiaini to return re-turn about Nocmber 1st. Ihe niCtt who were.lcft in camp hail great ililll-culiics, ililll-culiics, especially atuut ihcir food, for in liui plaeo there was nothing but roos,nnd on the"i Ihoy fed for lnelc months. AM all the men Ks-auio sick and a good insny died of Krfr VS tion. The ilajor.who wasin command, bad manvmcansof saving the men if hewishedlo. Ilehadagnntquantilt or elotb, brass rods, bead", cle., which is native iione there, which he threw away at las. Ho inldiy tre-ite-J ihs men, Iicating them two hundred nlid three hundred strijics at a time for small offenses and cca shot Hum. Tippo Tib's men heard of this and would not go with the cxcdition and Tipno Tib nlmsUr was torry that bo had agreed to ghe Mr.Sianloy rix hundred men. Twelve months elapsed and they could get no men from Tippa Tib to carry loads and follow Mr. Manley. Durlilg this timo so mo deserters from Mr. Stanley arriied at camp. We expected ex-pected good nows from Stanley, but here was nothing interesting except tint many men nero sick. At ouo tune Mr. Stanley left fort v on tho way who could not march. The men followed fol-lowed him for five mouths and di J not reach tho placo ho was going to. Nine of them decrted, raven were eaten by cannibals and two reached the raini. After this tho major begged Tippo Tib to p,i 0 some men and if necessary to make a new t-mtract and increase tho men's pay, intending if he refuted to throw their .-.tutt into the riter and gobaik to 7-uizitiar. Reordered J. b. Jameson to go with an interpreter to Kceongo, 11 Milage belonging to Tippo Tib thirty das from Maniej Fails, by canoo to try and get soma men. On bis trip Jameson being anxious to see how nntive eat each other, bought a girl tenyearaold and gave her to the natives, that ho might seo them cat her. Tbey tied her to a tree, slabbed her tw Iro iu thn bowels, it hen eight men rnshod up with LnUesnnd cut her op and put her In their cooking cook-ing pot- Jameson was pleased with tbe sight and made tketehes of the same. As soon as they arrived in tamp Major Barttelot intended to leac camp with the men and go to Wadili and look for Mr. Manlsy. Meanwhile, steamers arri ed and took alHuthaIforthclnadback.toUangalia. Many things were thrown away and git en to tho nath es which would ba o saed all tbe men who dleiL A. K. FAMUX. How a Bnsslan tilrl Bevens-d llcratir. New YoRir, No v. 22. A Russian romance was develoiicd at tbe barge office today. Mark Kosa was a prosperous tailor or Kiel, Russia. Sara Rowinski was his sweetheart Tbe lovers quarreled. Mark made love to another girl, whose name was Hannah, and mtrrle-l b r. Two years later he came to America, Ameri-ca, leaving ; wjfl( wi,0 was j( n Kell, with a ten months old child. The doctors advised Mrs. Koss to go to Odessa for medical treatment She could not tako her dhlM aad adreUiecdfora nurse. Sara Grin-berg Grin-berg responded and was engaged. After several months' treatment Mrs. Koss returned liouic,mucb im- S roved in health, bat the nurse trinberg had left and taken the Koss child with her. Mrs. Koss was well nigh frantic Learning tbat the nurse bad a hushind in America, Mrs. Koss naturally con eluded that she bad gone thither, so she bought a ticket and followed. At tbe birge ofllce she met her husband hus-band on Wednesday and related the circumstancts to him. Then for the first time, she learned that the mine Sara Grinberg was her husband's old sweetheart, Sara Rowinski. This cleared the mystery away.Sara avenged herself on Mark by tunning tun-ning off with bis child. |
