Show sir samuel bakers african elpa 0 ou i i i T 11 Sit isif samuel baker hus has written ia in ietter letter to his ills broth efi eit eri under date of may tsi isi from ismalia in III which lie he gives an hn out outline lirio of his ills work from the tho coni commencement men cement he states that the main objects of the eppedi expedition tion the s suppression up of the slave trade and the annexation of the central contra I 1 nile basin to Egypt have been beon accomplished pil shed despite many difficulties his ris force of eleven hundred men nion 1 was reduced by tha the general conspiracy of the officers in 1871 to I 1 tive ll 11 hundred and two and avith this limited hurri number bob boi he had everything tordo toldo to do accompanied by iwo two hundred and twelve officers officer sand and lylon mon pushed hei hel on to fatico where whore lie he found the headquarters of the sian veers verg vers nil all under tiie tile direction of or tile the agent of a firm in khartoum and all resolved to resist the sovern ment by force and treachery eachers ti they offered no outward opposition however when given notice to quit the country sir samuel left lert one hundred huni bulli I 1 men to hold a station at fati ko and went on to victoria vittoria nile kilo in where they found kamras dead and one of ills his bons sons kabba rega bega on the tilo throne the slavers clavers had ruined these provinces all the villager were burnt and the tile women and children carried oft off as its slaves the slavers clavers sl avers had fifiel incited ted the ayoung king to resist sir samuel by F force foite and cad bad had everywhere secretly y i undermined hi path no sooner had he made arrangements and left victoria nile than they tiley broke out they murdered a man mall to whom lie had given protection and nd prepared for an attack on illon illona luonga a kahrim Kam Ka trim rasPs siy sil 4 cousin in conjunction with kabba troops sir samuel had llad the eiders elders of or the slav ers drs party arrested and carried to Ma kabba rega professing allegiance to the Sultan Sir samuel formally took possession and formed a fine station the chief of the slavers clavers at however howe hoWo vor bame tame to kabba rega and represented sir mamuel samuel as a monster according I 1 ly th the young king determined to tse destroy AZ him nud und ills his followers by liy poison nosir S I 1 k u nu t jars jar of plantation cider nive five e of which were given to the troops it was poisoned and shortly after forty of the he men were in great agony they were shut up in a small forta fort and strong emetics ad mi ministered At daybreak the next day they were ivere attacked by seven thousand men on all sidy side sconce aled inthe in the grass jungle nw had rp covered recovered from the ejects bf the tho polson poison feil fell in and the camp mp was well guarded before the attack became general sir samuel then fired the town and the enemy was not only def defeated eathol but not botone one house remained remu ined inMa bakers loss lots was wag only four killed and one boull wounded dad they then set out for tile the victoria nile and actually y fought thel their way for foi seventy nine miles and seven days against un seen scan ene enemies who were concealed in the giant grass at last reaching vict victoria orla oria nile he setup bionga bionda as its sheik of the country nhoi and started for with forty men then he w was attack attacked doi dol by the clavers slavers slavers clavers sl avert avers avers who seeing him liim with only forty forts men supposed the rest test to be lill killed led the slavers were with it a loss of half their number the native rejoicing in their around baker llod and days notice netice ten ton thousand men would have risen at his word the slavers clavers concentrated their force norce which was soven scoven hundred strong at fabbo thirty miles distant their com eom commander miander mahomet meb moh having been disabled was pad pod vod by sir bis Sar bar samuel hamuel and impressed m pressed artio tbt government ser sen vico vied abs tbs flod at a message s sage that bir sir saumil was coming 0 to seo f see geog beep them his force was soon raised to two hundred regulars and three 11 undred hundred irregulars he constricted strict ed un impregnable forta fort at tF fail fati iii alti ko band nd then marched onto on lia ila which lie ile reached on the of april there jio pie he found that mr higginbotham the chief of ills his engineering staff had died a month before A clean river bed had been established by his work of cutting call cail canals sils tho the morasses of the bah girace ho he states that nota not a slave can call now pass down the whito white to nile and that egypt extends from AIex alex Andria to the equator he lias has received information that the albert nyanza and tho the tanganyika Tang anika aro are otic the king of or Maganda has sent ta the west to search for livingstone living ing stone who wiio if found will be sent to tho government station 1 F Y y sir sin henry ra Bavli minson sends to the times the following letter which had just reached him from sir samuel baker sir henry says the enclosure to sir samuels letter which was addressed to sir roderick murchison and which I 1 have llave accordingly handed to sir bartlo bartle frere enere for communication ii to the royal geographical society gives 1 a 1 VE very veny ry graphic account of the hostilities with cabrega and the slave siave dealers which led to those sinister stories rega regarding roling the ra fate fato to of the baker expedition that were circulated in alexandria a few months ago and the letter also contained an abstract odthe of the information furnished to sir sit samuel baker by native merchants of JC amaco as to tho the junction unction of lake tanganyika with the he albert nyanza so as to form ono oue body of water this information lol bol however vever eon con convincing jinking to sir S samuel fiwel baker at the time cannot of course hoid hold its ground ag against the rosi rosl to tp 0 te b contrary since acquired by livingstone stone and stanley and indeed if it will be seen from the tile letter now published that bhat when baker on op ills his arrival at khartoum learned of bivin Liying stones visit to the north end of tanganyika without discovering any outlet lie he was rather inclined to mistrust forust the statement of his african informants from the route which Baker bauer gives it would seem that the tile merchants sailing down the albert nyanza left loft the nig lake lako at I 1 urpo Alpo roro to p tass lass ss in two lays days march to karag we ave and then tilen ret retraced rated their steps westward to the irwanda or joaun da which they supposed to bo be a continuation of the albert ryanza nyanza a and i nd by which they descended ol in into info to tau tan tanganyika annika it is i s not so easy alty to explain the tile statement of the TJ ganda envoys that there was a continuous f water pars passage ige from ciji to the north end of the tile albert lake but it cannot be accepted in the face of Living stones discovery that the niver river at the hornli end of tanganyika is an affluent and not effluent ail an it is to bo be hoped that sir samuel baker will reach teach E england ng in time to discuss this very interesting question at the approaching pro aching inee meeting of tile the british association at bradford t 1 i sir ir S bauers bakers aaers 0 letter is as foll foil follows ow s KHARTOUM july 2 18 ja MY aly DEAR deau RAWLiN rawlinson sos SOX wear we arrived herewith here hero with the wh whole ole european party on tho the uit allibell all Al well livell thene theno w steamer constructed at Is mailia answers admirably for pass ing the narrow chai chat channels inels ineis of the bahr giraffe as the absence of paddles allows her to slip lip through the bf high li grass I 1 found the bahr gir rane fr e completely changed thanks to the great labor that I 1 bestowed upon the work vork in 1871 my canals have turned into permanent channels chanels n els eis bf of deep water and the force of tile the stream has cleared away awby the sandy shallo shallows vvs AVs we vve came through with the twin screw steamer of ton little difficulty I 1 left everything in most satisfactory order throughout my territory the government fully established the natives contented and paying pay ing their corn tax the slave siave hunters driven riep n out of the country the officers and troops in good heal henith health til ill and spirit sand no volunteers for khartoum this is a change that is the bes best t proof of success two years ago all officers cers and men wished to abandon the expedition and return to the soudan the viceroy has shown great nin persisting against the slave siave trade and thus opposing the most moat cherished institution of his subjects most decided orders have been sent here and should the slave trade recommence when I 1 leave it will be I 1 the h e f fault i uit of the soudan authorities there them are now eleven steamers on the white nile and with honest cruising no slaver could escape the viceroy sent orders to khartoum that at all cost costs s the main channel of the white 2 nile tile should shoma be cleared an au expedition started last year and succeeded ill in cutting through the orl ori original inal inai dam and opened the river borla for a great distance six large vessels were lost durl duri during bg the ni night lit tho the force pf af the stream in a new channel suddenly broke up the the dense vegetation which coming down in many floating acres swept away six bix six bix vessels vessel and buried them no do one knows where as not oven their long yards ya ads ana and masts were ivere ever discovered at the tho clapso eliso of the rains another expedition tion will continue the work and the white nile will avill be reopened the camels will be bo then transported to Is mailia and there will be ie no difficulty in delivering the steamers at tat the spot required above the tho last jast cataracts on my arrival here I 1 received with much plea piea pleasure sure suro your welcome letter of march pj 9 1872 1 I had already received a kind note of yours at fati ko of a very old date I 1 cannot express my nay grief at the loss of my dear old friend sir roderick I 1 enclose a letter that I 1 had written to him h last as t se september the news of liv in ing stones tone safety fet received bero hero is most cheering but I 1 am astonished at his account of ail examination theno the north rth ith end of tanganyika that there does not appear to bo be any connection with the albert fyan kyan za since I 1 wro teto toto sir roderick the king hing of uganda altese bl tese to 0 o whom I 1 had entrusted tile the search for livingstone sent mess messengers engers eDgers to me at Flati fatico Fa tiko ico loo saying that ills his men bad had had been to and declared that livingstone had left lett that place iong long ago for the west ivest side lide of 1 since sinco which nothing was avas known of him they also aiso reported that three white men had llad nel nei I 1 sent one ofay of my men with envoys to remain with him as my mv agent this man selim bellm Ws was oge oze one faith falth fuls fuis who having got adt drunk in alexandria was seized by the police pollee and mado made a soldier thus his destiny brought him into my service a letter to Livingst livingstone olie brie which will certainly reach him hini if he comes north and the king lung of uganda will receive him kindly and forward him to the govern government men station I 1 established y station opposite Riol Ri igals island oil on the victoria nile north latitude 3 2 06 my next station is fatika norih north latitude 3 01 at which places ho will feel himself at home bome should ouid lie he reach them the envoys sent by maese nil all assured me that the tho tanganyika is the dir nir mwood woo tail lail nine albert Nyan syu syi and that is on tile eastern border that you call can travel by boat from to the tiie northend of the albert lake but you must have a guide as some e portions are very narrow narrow and intricate I 1 ai F eprom roin my experience of the high water waler grass I 1 should expect islands and li vegetation in the narrow passes de described crl cribei cri bed beO I 1 am by no means fond of geographical th theories mit blit the nit natives tives descriptions were sd a elear clear th at I 1 accepted asa as a fact that the Tanga tanganyika nylka nyika and albe aibe albert rt lakes are one of water with marshy narrow barrow straits overgrown with water vater grass through which you ou require a guide I 1 thank you ali all and our society much for your kind interference on behalf of J A bak baker bauer cr ian iun N after all that he has hasi gone through with avith me it would bleak bieak his heart should his reward be an enforced retirement from the navy I 1 trust to reach leach england in september ever vea very sincerely your youra SAMUEL barer BAKER london times the london daily telegraph publishes a letter from mr james baker of Sal sai saighton daighton dilton gliton ton grange chester enclosing a letter received from his ills brother sir samuel ramuel baker dated Is mailia may 13 in which the latter atter lati ati I 1 says 1 I can only thank god most sincerely that wo we have overcome all ail opposition and succeeded in the main objects of the expedition the tile suppression of the slave trade trado tra doand and tho the annexation of or the central nile basin to egypt the territory now extends to the equator we vc have had many difficulties and personal doors doers dangers ng have been caused by gross trac treachery bery bory in open war I 1 have no doubt of success our enemies have been crushed and the government is now triumphantly established throughout tile the country |