TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7517, 5 April 1890, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

A Mima more than a yw m t I Englxdx Alpine tourist*. and Pox, and two Meiringea pfe 3 will be remembered, lost their Ih* fa tt« Caucasus. Mr Douglas W. Ruhfau ' who went with a Boarch espial tJ ' discover if possible traces of the &%fei party, delivered a lecture at the tfjfeJ - of London recently, in j> fl * . come painful but interesting Ada, „, gardingthe result of the expfotta ft was believed in the Cauoasq3 «hiA ft* .tourieta had been robbed mi anibvA by the mountain Ttutm, but rhi? theory was t»mplefeely disproved I by Mr FreeSfield's researches! Th* |' lost party iet <mt from the Bumalsj P! Valley to cjimb Djohtau, a moantefe U 16,880 feet high. $fo exsomft,in f<fc |\. ing their supposed route, whca about I'M |v feet above the enow, came to a low wall t | [' ■'■ lava stones, built in a eemioirclo ««w«ti P a lower precipice. A crag mi> i j hung it; any objeot dropped wall fell 1000 feet on to the aacw |te;s below. The ep&oe, come cis ! inside; the wall was filled with, ; enow or ise, front wnich which. potfcasU; , knapsacks and sleeping A'- ,- black stawpan, half full of watot, ia %H^: ' a metal cup floated, lay against tfe to:k; n., ; loaded revolver was hung bosido 11. l%m}, ; more than ihree hoars' hard work to ckn,; ;, : all the objactafromßho frozea stuffiawciit'': they were embedded. Only three work atoned in the narrow spaes, Freshfield and Mr Wooiley weat en ridge, whWe they found & eiaali but no written record. Some MS. c>t f and maps of Mr HWs were found in bivouac, bat nothing written the lower camp. Sitting on the r&eka. r MrFreehfleid, beside the mclaaokoli r _ etoneman, the whole efcory oil tU etytropheeeemed to tell itaalf, The k»," tfttneera, all heavily laden, travcitea; well as guides,had reached about the oreet of the range. They hadgi.a! tip any ide* of in attack on the grestpir Dyohtau from th© OTuaua side, aud, &> ; ing the pUtn expressed in Fox'e tended to deecead to the Ttituin ®wd&'; ; They had never aeea from tiny distal; a?; tege point the general peak. They persuaded : the of."the ridge was vs. d<^'<■ tore that mif ht be attempted. Ttss &£ f'. native wail to deiwend to tiw below, to carry dowa 1200 ft aU tM*«S« J' end provisione, to los« their '* 3 ; next day. It was easier to stop v&mj.they wew, and w the fatsi tMslos«s '(; made. The etart noxt movaiag </ htttiiedj 16oee objects mt» &&V \ packed up. Donkin took, 89 aa»- i! » | light oamera on hie own sis*; jJ ™ r buried with Mm. They \ a pp6r»affco« tiie great J there (the lecturer coo&sed) m I ended, and conjecture W&* t w '-; I where-tlid wow ;«Upped «d» to«», - ; -bttfc irhat use speciUstiJJff . the ettd came ? It was e*><# f, 0 , , , i 4t wne ewift, common and ■ that the great ioe fosse at tho ton olifle in »U for them »tomb. Such Iβ ft* *» f of the moaf! tragid etorte of ftlpa"*;;;;. * :*ar». There ie a meiaooholf j however, that the "ffffftithe fate of the party has [ up., Tha energy aud det,^ J.- I Freehfield in achieving w» **" i., hearty praise. * | Timi enterprising correspoaddatof ttj j York TForW who went to . interview Stanley on hia total { ftivee aa eecoaat of W ; presented by the greas explowj , - ' ? w J ac came upon Btanley's «^' ft j pondent found what looked l^ . green thronga wear, , sure. Mr Stanley »nd f . tente were somewbafe !«»«. **X«* \ than those of their reepcoiiw f and eported Egyptian tog- - ;,, ! wae clothed to a wit «JJJ-g ,„ out of an old teat cover, andpicture»q«ely .j cap, of the kind which Eueaian aUitary cap. w*j o» » jj, Hie boote were the best P»«' J 4 | of the etoree left more thftß I at the couth end of **• I Being «i»d Aether il that Stanley's h&ir | correspondent itieanditto't. very low in the nape j thee&tfg-" , c hM gone •*^ Jfc ..j------that Emm Bey is * * sr? | looking man. | Tjw jt#« fpri w^.SJTJ 4 *!** I .with «»at. «Kote? j

.J||lii. :: L; Major' Wissmann refusal to him to proceed on his journey from 22<2>ar in search of Stanley. He slipped aims, however, wiUi a small party Mgtots, but after going beyond Bagamoyo were arrested by a German reconexpedition. Having caught his g-jgoners, however. the officer, in •£«,« did not know what to do He had not sufficient men to to take them back to Bagamoyo and to take them with him. On the .avback, after seeing Stanley, they met who had come to receive Emm and Stanf >rW aiid, s*? 3 tbe correspondent, «Mv fiood times came to an end. Not I didhe not invite mc to the banquet 5S in honor of the wanderers to which Etwopean » «-•■ place without been bidden, but he hunted fa»i» who had W ven mc TJJI and issaed * strict prohibition to Bagamoyo to lodge or au^ ae ed, Ido not know what I doae had it not been that an H.M.S. Turquoise, • 6Jl *^~ b0 _ e j jo the bay, and that her **f**^» er <aptain Brackenbury, j bjad < v™ *° "* a " t€ mc on again to Zanzibar." /n y • ct -° ll °* tne Oermanß is m tJie u S^ fc the latest Zanzibar.