A German View off Stanley and Emin.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 479, 11 June 1890, Page 3

A German View off Stanley and Emin.

Father Sciiynze, who accompanied Stanley and Emin from the Victoria Nyanza to the coast, gives the following description in hi ß diary of Emin and Stanley:—The difference between Emin and Stanley is very marked. The former is absorbed in scientific research, a very plain man, who lives more for science than anything else, and is a learned linguist. Emin is in delicate health ; but when we offer him wine which we keep for Holy Mass he brings it back without tasting it. ‘I am going to ask for it some day,’ he says, ‘ fot a sick man; please save it until then.’ It is a riddle bo me how he can live and stand the journey. In the morning he has a cup of Turkish coffee without anything to eat. Then follows the march, during which he does nob get down from his ass. In camp it is often evening before his men can attend to him. I never saw a European in Africa who could get on with so little. On the other hand he cannot work without his desk and his chair. His time belongs to science ; his spare moments to his little daughter, whom ho guards as the apple of his eye. She is always carried just before him, so that he can watch her in spite of his poor sight. At the first visit of the missionaries Mr Stanley was very friendly and cheerful, but he is evidently less liked by Father Schynze than Emin is. He says Stanley is a leader, a commander. More than once he would like to break off all negotiations with the negro chiefs, and treat them to lead and powder, but he curbs himself, to avoid useless bloodshed. He keeps strict order. At sunrise a shrill whistle, sounded by Stanley himself, orders everybody to take his place in the caravan and march. He maintains the strictest discipline, and his men know him ; scarcely has the last sound of the whistle died away beforo all stand ready to march with their burdens on their shoulders. Stanley lights his short pipe, and armed with a long cane, walks at the head of the caravan, followed by a boy with a parasol, his servant with a Winchester rifle, and a Wangwana who leads his ass. Then follows the caravan. After an hour or two Stanley mounts his ass, and the speed of the march is then much increased, bub none of Stanley’s men lag behind. But the great traveller can also be merry. He sits under a trea smoking his pipeand watching the pitching of his tent. When this is done he disappears into it, and does not appear again until after sunset. I think he spends that part of the day in writing his notes, for whenever I have entered I have found him sitting by a large book. When he returns to Europe the curious world will not need to wait long for some very interesting reading. I believe that the description of the journey will be ready a 3 soon as we come to the coast, for Stanley does nob need to pay much attention to bis caravan now, as the officers do all. If Stanley is in a cheerful frame of mind, then the minutes we spend while the tents are being pitched are the most interesting of the whole day. He then tells incident after Incident from his adventurous life with such fire and such vigorous expression that we forget how broken his French is.