THE STANLEY-BARTTELOT SCANDAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3682, 9 December 1890, Page 2

THE STANLEY-BARTTELOT SCANDAL.

Mills Details. (Per'JTrisco mail, at Auckland,) A iipijLiND, December 8. Tlie following ia ft tolegram from London dated November 14thThe Timeß this mo-ning, in connection with the Staulcy-Barttelot matter, publishes the full text of Assar Farmr's affidavit. He describes how Barttelot, after Stanley left Jambuya, finding food scarce, employed armed Si)uda|)eje to attack t|e nojghbo.ur. ing villages, Iflit'foiinjl theiii deserted, He then had recourse to capturing native women and demanding food for their ransom, Bouny did thp sapie. Asaa'r plates how' Jtor'ttelot ijaily prdpred tlio men to be given from 25 lo 100 lashes for various oQbnocs. Ho speakes of numerous cases of stealing food, tho thieves being punished with 100 or more lashes until' the flesh wag tp, In o||e gaue satte|cit ordered tjtQ punishment to. be stopped, but when the victim rccovorcd somewhat he was given 150 more lashes, and then was compelled to walk 10 hours in tho sun clajljr, chained, flffl wmlinu'ed for two riiqntiis,' When the .native's sores beoanie tnigolty, Barttelot relieved liiru for a week, and Dr Bonny gave him. medicine, after wliic(> n^r^ng in the piin ni^n finally (|eci)mp.e(|, was recanting ifl«( 4,0,t. AS§a\\ says, oncers ll»d plenty of food, but the won oamped were starving and dying daily. The camp became a miserable sight, yet none of the officers appeared to care, Assar refer? particularly to Ward and Troup, saying tjjey spenfed, ji!|v|j!B f>Y?V-vHIl n gHlfywaptctii werj) cpnpljnect tp. march, Referring to' the Jameson incident, Aasav saja Jtl|«t Jmiieaw tiXjireitjd to Tijuiu

.Tib ■ his. curiosity to -witness ] caunibahaiu. Tippo. told Jameson j bo had better ■ purchase a slave ] gul.Jamoaon tbon paid six handker- i chiefs for a ten year old girl, The i girl wns then' taken to the cannibals, | tho chief being told she was a present ; from the wliito man, who wanted to : see her eaten, Tht> girl was tied to a ] treo, Then one of the natives- stabbed her. She whs soon dead. Then the natives out her up. Soma took tho legs and arms and other portions to their huts, while others took tho entrails to tho river and wished them. Jameson in the meantime was making tough sketches of the horrible scene. Then ho went to the camp where he finished the sketches in Water colour. Assar further says that Jameson was proud of his cannibal sketches, and showed thorn to all the officers. Bonny also made another statement to day to the effect tlmt the cannibal incident was tho cause of the death of Batt, Jameson, and Barttelot, Assar told the Congo State authorities, and sent bis affidavit to Europe. Baritolot, learning this,became terribly excited for fear he would ■ be blamed, and Bonnyi ascribed tho violence, which led to Barttelot's death to this cause, Bonny believes Barttelot was becoming insane through privations, and that the cannibal incident was the hist strawj and that he can hardly bo held'responsible'.for-bis actions thereafter, Jameson also became uneasy, and hurried to the coast to try and 'stop tho report, and Bonny believes worry killed him. JJonuy excuses Jameson on' tho ground of his being an enthusiastic nntnrali«t,_and says ho

foiled to relaise his act. Bonny relates an-incidcntof Jameson securing the head of n negro who had been shot by an Arab, It was Baited and sent to London, where it was stnfl'ed, It was afterwards in the possession of Mrs Jameson. According to the Cologne Gazette Dr Scheinfurth heard the Jameson story from Aasar in person, and is convinced of its truth. In an inttrview Mrs Jameson denounced as a baseless fabrication the story that her late husband purchaseda native gitl and turned her over to the cannibals to be killed and eaten. ' She s-iys the sketches were only incidents coming under bia own observation as a traveller.