EMIN BEY AND STANLEY'S EXPEDITION.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

EMIN BEY AND STANLEY'S EXPEDITION.

A Renter's telegram which was published in the Times, under date, Zanzibar, July 18, states that news of Emm Pasha had beon received up to the end of February lost. The message says :— " Fresh intelligence concorning Emm Pasha has been brought horo from the interior by messengers in the service of ivory traders. The news is up to the end of February last, when Emm Pasha was at Wadolai, and was enjoying good health. It was his intention to undertake at the end of Maroh a fresh expedition on the Albert Nyanza, with the object of exploring the regions to the south of the lake. *Einiu Pasha nad made his first journey on the lake in September, and had discovered the Kabikpi river, an immense stream having its source in the Usongora Mountains and flowing into the southern portion of the lake. In November last, when Emm Pasha was on his way to visit his friend Kabrogu, the King of Unvoro, a secrot expedition was made on the Albert Nyanza. This expedition confirmed the results obtained in the first. In the third expedition, which Emm Pasha was abont to undertake in March, he purposod ascertaining the exact course of the Kabikpi, and to set whether the rivor did not come from Lake Muta-Nzige beforo emptying into the Albert Nyanza. Emm Pasha's intention

was to devote three months to this expedition, as ho wished to tucend the Kabikpi as far as tho cataracts, and then to follow the banks as far as Lane Muta-Nzige. It is possible that the Pasha will prolong his stay in ÜBon<jora, where provisions and cattle are plentiful, and that Mr. Stanley, who may have beon informed of this fact by Arabs^ and emissaries from Tippoo Tib, will be able" to meet Emm Pasha to the south of the Albert Nyanza, in tho country of Usongora and Lake Muta-Nzigc. According to the statements of tho messengers, Emm Pasha has again made unsuccessful representations to M'wanga, the King of Uganda, for permission to pass through his territory. He only Eucceeded in obtaining from the King the assuranco that no obstacle would bo placed in tho way of tho messengers sent from the coast to rovictual Wadelai. Emm Pasha is further stated to havo lost throo of tho Egyptian officers who were with him. Ho was fctill unawaro that an attempt was being mado by Mr. Stanley to reliove him. The messengers who had boon sent by the British and Italian Consuls at Zanzibar to inform Emm Pasha of the departure of tho rolief expedition wore met in May last to tho north-west of the Victorian Nyanza, thoy having been released by King Kassikki, who had detained thorn in Unyanyombo." Tho Scotsman, of 21st July, speaking of tho progress which was being mado by Mr. H. M. Stanley with tho oxpedition for tho rolief of Emm Pasba, says :—" General Strauch, of the Congo Freo State, sent the following telegram last ovening from Brussels to Mr. W. Mackinnon : — ' A telegram from St. Thomas informs me of Stanley's arrival at tho River Aruwimi, and his departure thence on 2nd June for Wadelai. 1 Mr. Stanley had intondod to disembark htß expedition at the Aruwimi unless the stito of the river Congo were favourable for proceeding up to Stanley Falls. He had with liim a son of one of the chiefs of the Aruwimi district, and, it was said, acquired from him prior to leaving England a mass of information respecting the country between tho Aruwimi and Wadolai. Tippoo Tib's knowledge of the district ought also to be of aervico. Mr. Stanley is three weeks beyond the date at which, when in England, he estimated his land journey would commence."