Ka Nupepa Elele, Volume XII, Number 35, 11 ʻApelila 1891 — IN THE DARK FOREST. Stanley's Story of Emin Pasha's Rescue. A Vivid Description of His Difficulties. The Pygmies-The Ill-Fated Rear Column-The Future of Africa. [ARTICLE]

IN THE DARK FOREST.

Stanley's Story of Emin Pasha's Rescue.

A Vivid Description of His Difficulties.

The Pygmies-The Ill-Fated Rear Column-The Future of Africa.

H<anry M. Stanley delive»Nl his Beeond and last lecture upon "Barkest Africa" in tbis city at the Grand Opera-houae last night. T!ie aiadience, like that in atfcendanee npon the firstlectnre, w»s remarkable both ioe ite sam &uā ch&riieter. k. umWi* i>f i}>& ms>s »>»»&» o{ B;ui Fisvneiftco every in ; tke graat opera-ha«se, ovei'fiow»i<2 on |to the, &k»ge and stood up in tqws iji i ihe lobliy. Stanley is a inan born io commfttid, and his mere on the rostrnm, as he st.ooderocr9.nd with those cajm, penotrating his swept house , liE t gno comprehei&iye was< *enotligh to still tki " rast and keep it bushed and <jnĀet sav« wLeii he arouse4 it -to by burst of elocjfieiiC6 or ttie be-.vuty of one orfo&j«!isterpainti'ng. * * Dispenstng with an in£ro<lucsiou, Mr. Stanley walked upo» last night and began the ston- ©f lns rescue of Emin- Pasha by t£Jiui§ who und M-hat Emin was,how he haptfeaed 4o be i& AĪnea" aud w hy he (Staipley) set, out to find j|pd rescue him. t!ic officering of the oxpedition Bund the clio»sing of the fewEuglishnien vjio slionld accouipany him 011 his perilOus venture were next detai}©d. - r■* —- : ■

"Had v7o desire," said Sta.nlev, ' w« could have emptied not only ev©ry barracks and eollege in Ēnglaml, but rven the nnrser?es. so ahxious were thousands to accompany me." : ■ V; -■ - The route|that we first m«ppēd out, the chiinges imade because of the interference first of GerJnahy alid then of Pmnee was the- next cha;pt«r in the storj ; »nd with «arn<«tnoss the speaker said that bnt for the delays ānd interferenceB whieh him from fo!lowing his own plafts the terrible loss of lile in the grbat forest and the dis*ster totjherē&r eolumn wonid neVer have occtirred. The landmg at the month of the Congo, the bargain with Tippu Tip, the failure to find transportation for all of his forces, and finally the journey np t© the poinl where thc rear eolnmn was form«d and he left* it were rapidly vet concisely told. Wlien the subjoct of'the forftiation of the rear eolumn was taken ftp the vasfe amlienee be#ār6e, if p«§feible, Mod£stly, but witn raor* aud vehemenoo thah he had given tohissubj"3ct, Stanley told hfvw the eoInmn was fonned and what hfts orders were to the officers left in charge . Then, to the i3isappoiritment ot those who expccted him to enter tipoii iin elaborate answer to his accusters, he ieft the roar eolumn in his story just as he had left it in Africa ana with his own forees entefed ilie great forest. Whatever there ftiay have been of disappointment among h auditors it was quickly blotted out by the wonderful pie.tures whioh the apeaker drew*fti r«pi<t succession, depicting the eventg, th s terrible disasters ānd the awful hardships of that march through tho forest. He told how the natives h;td led him to believe that beyong tne •ntrance to the forest, but a fe\v days march, he would find the longed-for grass lands, where food abeunded and weleoeae awaited them. On aud on they marched, day aftej* day, week after week, only to find th® forest to grow more dense, the vapoi-s more and more deadly, and the men to be-; eome more and inoro discouragad. | The nativBs had a tradition that ] journeving in a cevt;iin direeik>n the world would becomo darker and dark-1 er until tlie edgo of it waa reHehed, wh«re thoro lay a liuga se!rpent r?> idy ] to desttoy all whn ventared upon its domain. This journey believed they were then m iking, and prettv soon the iutrepid rdey found, added to nil the buid?n of famine and discontent with wiiieli he had to contend, of hi* m m. Th»y ieft in twos and threee, b ;' few there wew of the des©rters who ever lonnA their way baek the for®st Tho <t»scriptLon of a tli£i:iWstorm in th« dejpth of that world of treos, the gr6auiug and gfindui<; of the mouan ha of tho farest the fnrv of the elera»nts. the v!viu ligbtning nnd tho terror pl U«f' mea was oue of tho iuost dnun;itiv v effeetive iu thc lecture. "It takos calamity to kaeh, iniu, whitc or black, how to wisely»aid Stanley whon of his ondoavor to koep onj through a eOuntry \vherē tho v c utteh ofa Uiorn, the oik l of «11 ant t!.e j sting of a wasp rosnlUd iu au uleoi. that in turn rosulkvl in certain do.vth J Puially, afk>r 160 wcury davs, aiul ( nighte of *ud Uavol' 173 men, out of tho *lio sUi'te«.l j from ilie forcst iuto luo bloss*d sun j llgM; aud lio Kra.«is uiiuls w oiv f«,jnd/' Tho* followod a descriptiou of tho | sceno wlien tho e»ul of £or«st' was re«ehi»d, ;tad ?u >uoh v tr«sl it to thi» 5GOnt v § dt piu^l' i» lLv tii.d ihe d\idieu uol ito Vv,t the reliof whioli tlio auditors (ol( l» t v

aftor routitl of applatise. he met Emin Paaha and how Emin dallied and played with him, was toid fuliy , aiul JBtanloy handled the craffy and ,tr€iacberous Goternor of Equatorial Africa without gloves in dēsexibing his actions, deceits and meanness. The story of the march back through the foresit a»ain l>rouglit Stanley face to face with tne miserable remnant of the rear eolumn, and, with an earnestness and mahifest feeling, he told how he eome upon 3Bannv and how he learned the awf«i trath, bat said not one word against any of the men whom he liolds responsible for the death of me«L in & marah ot ninetv milea in a conntry whei-e food was Tke jo\iTßey kome g&ve ths plorer tl\e opportuntty to descnbe at length the wonderfttt raco c,t pygmi«s whieh ho and with many tduehes of humor he told of his experience with the?n. With the return home and the international complication» growing out of the desire of England and Germany to eaeh becotne sole ruler of Eastern 'Airica, the part whieh he iook in 'preventing tliis "and the aatisfactorv' solution of the troubīesome matter, and with a prophecy or two as to the future of the great country that he liās made known to the world, Stanley closed his loetnre aud tlie vast andi«nce, after applauding liim to the eeho, went liome to discuss the wonders of whieh they had heard.