Show CV C V 4 77 k t t I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 STANLEY THE TRAVELER his ills strict or ders to subordinates and aud RULES OF for atol heno hive have in som cue cases sired hil his Expedit expeditions ioni from enin rain all and Dett destruction ruction yew york sun tho the qualities that baye hai made henry tit stanley BO so successful as an african traveler trav eler have hav been very conspicuous in ins his latest undertaking is w inch la Is perhaps tho the most difficult enterprise he lias has conducted iio ile lias has accomplished tho the feat of leading men most of them heavily liea vily laden with ammunition and other stores intended for emin ernin pasha through miles of famine stricken countries ho ile required five steamers to carry his is expedition pe tion to tho the imi but bo he found only three steamers available and with these inadequate resources he lie managed by tiding g a lot of barges in fit tow to transport nearly four fifths of his party pirty SOO miles up the tile river I 1 arriving n a at t the anuw biml a day or to two zi before lg h ho 0 was expected to reach thit that point the sufferings of his ills expedition may bo be inferred from the act f act that the c collapse elapse of a number r of his men who m were ere unable to proceed was due solely to ire weakness akness resulting from their scanty rations when hunger drove his hundreds of earners carriers to tile lie verge of 0 revolt between stanley pool and put the rebellious ring leaders in in irons and his prompt severity restored resto discipline and saved his expedition from the ruin ruin that threatened ear ell dalition it stanley has not been very trular popular with most of the men he has introduced I 1 on the congo with rare exceptions lie has not taken them into his confidence or mingled with vv ith them on terms on personal intimacy one of them N who ho served for three vears years under him in important positions wrote that lie rarely consulted ins its subordinates never confided his ills plans to them and that lie had lived for v ears stanley A and nd htiu felt t that hat j he e did not know the man if mr stanley told me said lieutenant braconnier Cra connier to pack p my mv baggage and be ready to start in an hour I 1 would not dream of asking him where vie 0 were svere going lie ile would simply tell me my mv own duties required all my attention these men s who ito have havie not admired stanly in in his personal relations iab with his subordinates have had great confidence dence in in ins his good judgment nt and ability as a leader ani an I 1 some of 0 them in have expressed their admira admiration of his handling of the expedition now in his charge during the sea voyage to the CO congo the zanzibar porte porters ra got into t trouble roub me with tile sixty Sou danese i whom hoin t they hey outnumbered ten to one there was aa a rowand row and the overpower over overpowering powe n zanzibar mob with clubs 1 ll 11 b 9 and f ri fire I 1 O 0 wood were driving the ti I 1 Soula neco down into a stifling place b between C tween decks when han st stanley a I 1 appeared ed on the tile scene with mith his s stick tic 7 ared belabored all on I 1 lie frantic porters m within reach dr drove ove them back and quieted tho tile tumult ono one secret of ilia lis success ie is tile mastery stanley has a always ways possess possessed ed over the hundreds hun dreda of ignorant natives who havo have helped him hint in his enterprises more than ono one african eppedi ion like lieu lieutenant tenant girarde girards basteen tied because its commander lacked r the quality of leadership and insubordinate 0 at got the tile upper hand on this occasion stanley assigned tho the poor POO r Sou danese to one part of the v vessel 0 sac within which he lie forbade tho the baria baris to intrude and thereafter there was as perfect peace among the different elements of tile party before tho the bit big expedition debarked on loss er congo to begin its lind land rna march the tile parti part hid bad been divided into to C companies of of about seventy men I 1 each of which is was isas as put in in chargo charge 0 of one of stanleys european Fur assistants each captain captain hid lad his distinctly 0 flag and received every morning tho the orders for fort the hadly day tho the chiefs of several of the congo stations have expressed their admiration of tile perfect order anday and B stem with nith which every mye ment of the tile pirty party was conducted of fivers at leopoldville leopold ille hao have said that is when lien a steamer ie is about to leave hut that port one would think that a huge atlantic liner was aas taking her departure stanleys command however marched in detachments to tho the w wait ait ing fleet 1 took the positions assigned them in the most perfect order and were on their way up tip the river before half of leopolds V ille ilia knew they had bad broken camp the departure caho steamers writes a member of the sanford anford fc expedition was quite a sight everything beff thing went with he the smooth exactitude of a L machine and not a hitch bitch of any lind kind occurred the surprise to which stanley treated leopoldville upon hie his a arrival at that place was quite characteristic 0 of f the man tho the sleepy settlement had hardly woke up one day when it w was as astonished to see that some distance below the town a score of fonts tents had been reared and hundreds of men were hard at work vork clearing a space for their camp stanley had armed arrived and had bad his ilia camp hilf half pitched before an 3 abod body ittin in in leopoldville Leopold villo knew that he lie was within vs miles of the place tho tile characteristic promptness prompt nesi also with which be he cut gordian knots that lie could not untie wae was wel well bv by the alacrity with winch he lie dispatched a force of his soldiers eol biers and seized sized the tile steamer seamer henry reed after tho the missionaries sion aries had form formally alIv declined to let him hae have the perdices Per ices vices of that esal rewel A few hours houra after lie fie reached stanley pool he lie had lad four parties arties of hunters on tile waters of I 1 at that broad e expense x pense sia shooting ti titipa TIpp and the meat theae these hunters supplied was a al that tha t paved saved the expedition from dire distress kono none but ft a remarkable man could do the tile work that M stanley has bas achieved in the d dark yr k continent and from all tie tile reports that have coma come back from the vongo hia his qualities ae As a leader of expeditions in africa havo have never shone mora bril than in the enterprise which he lie is now loading leading through all an unknown region to the relief of emin pasha |