The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 3, 14 June 1887, Page 4

The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.

LATEST NEWS FROM H. M. STANLEY. A PERILOUS JOURNEY. Mr H. M. Stanley sends an interesting despatch to the Times, dated March 9, giving an account of his expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha up to that date. On arriving at Zanzibar hefound the expedition almost ready for embarkation ; but arrangements had to be made with the famous Tippu-Tib, who is now an uncrowned king of the region between Stanley Falls and Tanganyika Lake, commanding many thousands of men inured to fighting and wild equatorial life. My idea was to give him a wide berth, for the ammunition I had to convoy to Emin Pasha if captured and employed by him would endanger the ex stence of the infant State of the Congo, and imperil all our hopes. Between TippuTib and Mwanga, King of Uganda, there was only a choice of the fryingpan and the fire. Tippu-Tip was the Zebehr of the Congo basin, just as formidable if made an enemy as the latter would have been at the head of his slave.s. Between myself and Gordon then in dealing with our respective Zebehrs, mine had no animus against me personally, my hands were free, and my movements unfettered. It was, therefore, with due caution that I sounded Tippu-Tib on the first day of my arrival, and I found him fully prepared for any eventuality, to fight or to be employed. I chose the latter, and we proceeded to business. You will please understand that his aid was not required to enable me to reach Emin Pasha, or to show the road to Wadelay, which is a region he knows nothing about. There are four roads available to Wadelay from the Congo; two of them were in TippuTib’s power to close, the remaining two were clear of his influence. But Dr Junker informed me at our Cairo interview that Emin Pasha had about seventy-five tons of ivory with him, So much ivory would amount to £60,000, at 8s per lb. The subscription of Egypt to the Emin Pasha Relief Fund is large for her present state of depressed finances. In this ivory we have a possible means of recouping the sum paid out of her treasury, with a large sum left towards defraying expenses, and perhaps leaving a handsome balance. Why not attempt the carriage of this ivory to the Congo ? Accordingly I to engage Tippu-Tib and his 'ole to assist me in conveying this P* After a good deal of bargaining J et ntered into a contract with him, bv which i? e a B reed to supply six hundred carriers at£6 P/ r loaded head each round trip . from , Stanley Falls to Lake Albert and bjok. Thus, if each carrier carries 7olb w .eight of ivory, one round trip will bring t<> the fund /i 3,2000 net at Stanley Fads. Stanley also entered into an arrangement with Tippu-Tib bit behalf of the King of the Belgians by which he was appointed Governor of Sta nley Falls at a regular salary. His duti es will be principally to defend Stanley’Falls in the name of the State against a.’l Arabs and natives. At all hazards he is' to defeat and capture all persons raiding the territory for slaves, and to dispers e all bodies of men who may be justly ’ suspected of violent designs. He is to abstain from all slave traffic below the Falls himself, and to prevent all in his command from trading in slaves. The expedition left Zanzibar on board the Madura on the 25th of February. The total number rank and file is 709 men.