A LETTER FROM STANLEY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1989, 2 January 1890, Page 3

A LETTER FROM STANLEY.

Nov. 22. All fears as to the safety of Mr H. M. Stanley and Emin Pasha have been entirely set at rest by the news of their arrival in the territory of the German East African Protectorate. Telegrams - have been received at Berlin from Captain Wissman, dated Zanzibar, Nov. 20th, stating that intelligence was received from Mpwapwa on the 10th, announcing the arrival at that place of Mr Stanley, Emin Pasha, Messrs Jephson, Stair, Nelson, and Bonny, Dr- Parkas, and Captain Casati, together with Messrs Schinze, 1 Hoffman, and other missionaries. Captain Wissman adds that he expects the party to arrive at Bagamoyo on Dec, Ist. Captain yissman further states with, regard' to affairs in the .equatorial province, that Emin Pasha and Mr Stanley are said to have had repeated engagements with the Matfdists, >nd when advancing from the north to have beaten them, and even to have captured the Mahdi’e large banner. The greater portien of Emin’s soldiers insisted that their way should lie homeward, and not towards the south, and they added that Emin had placed his stations? under the command of two Egyptian officers. This telegram has been followed by another from Zanzibar giving a letter addressed by Mr Stanley to the British Consulate at Zanzibar, Writing from Mpwapwa on Nov. 15th, Mr Stanley says“ We arrived yesterday, the 25th day from the Victoria Nyanza, and the 18th day from the Albert Nyanza, We number altogether about 750 souls. At the last muster, three days ago, Emin Pasha’s people numbered 294, of whom 59 were children, mostly the orphans of Egyptian officers. Since leaving the Yictoria Nyanza we have

lost 18 of the pasha’s people and one native of Zanzibar, who were killed while we were parleying with hostile people. Every other expedition I have led has seen a lightening of our labors as we drew near the sea, but I cannot say the same of this one. Our long string of hammock-bearers tells a different tale, and until we place these poor things on shipboard there will be no rest for . us. The worst of it is that we have no privilege of showing you at Zanzibar the full extent of our labors. After carrying some of them 100 miles, fighting to right and left of the sick, driving the Masais from their prey over range after range of mountains, with every energy on the full J strain, they slip through our hands, and die in their hammocks, One j lady r , seventy-five years old, the mother of the Yakiel, died in this manner north of Usakauma, South of the Yictcria Nyanza we had a stirring time for four days. We had continuous fighting during the greater . part of the daylight hours. The ' foolish natives took an unaccountable prejudice to Emin Pasha’s people. They insisted that they were cannibals' and had gone to their country 0 for no good. ‘ Talking to them was of ns use, and any attempt to disprove i drove them into a white hot rage. t We have made an unexpected dis- \ covery of real value in Africa of the considerable extension of the Yictoria Nyanza to the south-west. The utmost southerly reach of this extension ] is in S. lat. 20deg. 47mm,, which brings the Yictorian sea within 105' 1 miles only from. Lake langanyika. I was so certain that this fact was j Known through the many voyages of the Church Missionaries at Uganda ' that I did not feel particularly moved by it. Mr Mackay, however, showed me the latest maps published by the Society, and I saw that no one had even a suspicion of it. On the road here | I made a rough sketch of. it, and I find that the area of the ,great lake is now increased by this discovery to 26,900 square * miles, which is just about 1900 square miles larger than the reputed exaggerations of Captain, Speke. The coast line as drawn in the map. really consists; mainly of a ; series of large mountainous islands, many of which overlap each’other. : South of these islands is a large body : of water. I have just discovered that , Lake Urigi also, which Speke so slightly sketched, turns out to be a very respectable lake, with populated islands, in it. ; r ;=