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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 75, 11 December 1890, Page 4

Frisco Mail Items

HORRIBLE DETAILS. (PerSa'ta Fianui co mail, at Auckland.) 't'PW'Oailßl)!* ess association^ "■*-■ AUCKXA.N./. D«c.-... - S The following is a telegram from Lohdoil dated, November 14th :— i'i c .. Tiifi 6*B tbis morning, n congestion "with the Stanley- Karttellot matter, "■"publishes the full text of As-ar -^arrar'-s affidavit. He describes how •BaVttelltit, after {Stanley left Jamhuya Bnd*nv<_ food scarce, employed 'armed 'Soudanese to attack the ueighb mring Villages hut fouud them deserted. He then had recourse to capturing native "Women and demanding food for their ransom. B.»uny:did the same. Assau relates how Barttellot daily ordered the men to "be given "from 25 to 100 - lashes for various offends. He speaks of nmerous cast*.-- of stealing a food, the thieves being punished with *.-. 100 or more lashes until the flesh was — torn. Iv oue case Barttellot ordered : the"puuishuieut to : be- stopped, but- • " Afhen the victim recovered sume what i_ie<-was given 150 more lashes, ani — then was Compelled to walk 10 hours • ■ -'in the sun daily, heavily chained. This .•continued for two months when the ciL-native's sores became maggetty.. ~- .Barttellot relieved him for J a week "end Dr Bonny gave him mediciue. • ''After which, punishment of marching "'"in'the sun was resumed, ' the man ° f fi_ally decamped, but Was recaptured and shot. .Assar says the officers had y plenty of food,, but the meu camped nvftrerßt starving and; dying daily. The camp became a miserable sight, yet —^rouerof the: officers seemed to care. } 0 'Assar . refers l particula'rily to j Ward ,^&-d Troup, saying they seemed cony a ten#/4iavitig c everything they wanted and were disinclined to march. Re--j .Jerring to the Jameson expressed to ' sCippo,Tib his curiosity to witness -v^.^auuiijalism, - Tippo told Jameson he "Bad purchase a slave girl. Jameson then paid six handkerchiefs >j>j_b_ a ten-year-old girl. The girl was rolled to a tree. Then one bf the v.. A'ativeq stabbed her. She was soon ..■•jdead.^ Then the.natives cut her up. Some took the legs .and arms aud ._ --Othet portionß_to their huts, while : -others took the ".entrails to the river . and washed them. Jameson iv the ; :^meantime was making rough sketches of the horrible scene. Then he went r ttt- the. camp where he finished the ,i .-sketches in water colour. Assar further says that Jameson was proud ' i '.'of his cannibal sketches, and showed ■ u- them to all of the officers. Bonny also made a further statement to-day to the effect that the "cannibal incident was the cause of the '"death of Batt, Jameson, and Barttellot. Assar told the Congo State authorities, and sent his affidavit to -■' "Europe. Barttellot learning this became terribly excited for fear he "■ would* be blamed,' and Bonny ascribed ! ."the violence which led to Barttellot' s A,- death to this cause. Bonney believes Barttellot was becoming insane ■?'» through privations, and that the <:> cannibal incident was the laßt straw, „ and that he can hardly be held re- .. sponsible for his' actions thereafter. -Jameson also became uneasy, and 1 -hurried to the coast to try and stop 'the report, and Bonny believes worry , killed him. Bonny excuses Jameson on the ground of his beiug an enthusiastic naturalist, and says he ■""'ft ailed to realise his act. Bonny relates an incident of Jameson securing '^ "'"fitte" head of a negro who had been „.s__*ot by an Arab. It was salted and to London where it was stuffed. . It was afterwards in the possession of i Mrs Jameson.''