A BIT OF FUELING.

Timaru Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 5195, 16 July 1891, Page 4

A BIT OF FUELING.

A lengthy end inlcre-.Ung paper hy Lieutcniint Stftirn, ia tue Nineteenth Cenlwy, dcucrioes anew thu rioi7 mcinorablo inarch of tiio Stanley expedition from Albert Nyanzft to the Jnilian Ocean.. H* conclusion is as gruphic as anything to be found m recent periodical lituruture : — " As we were all f;h«ttering and sitting round the camp fires about 8 m the evening, talking of to-morrow and what it win to bring forth, und of our pail adventures, all of a sudden cunrm the low ' Iwnm ' of tite Bultan'a i^un far across tho wytor from the island of Zanzibar. It yi»ti tho signal that O'llls all true believers to prayer. Likft wma lor.g lost and Jo'i,* since forgotlon chord, it uv/oko thu aieirtorieo of the Zanzibaris, and went straight io their hearts. With a tremendous outburst

of cheering, tho men sprang up from their fires nnd rushed over to where our chief's teut stood. Again and again the cheers rang out through the still night air, as the men gathered round Mr fltanloy'B tent and sang his praises. Next day the expedition marched into Bagamayo ; and as wo looked seaward we saw for the first time for three years the Union Jack flying at the peaks of the meu of war lyiog m the bay." Then he bids farewell to the Zanzibaris-: -" Good bye boys ; you havo Btuok to ub liko the men you are. Over 6000 British miles some of us have footed it backwards and forwards through the forests and across the plains of Afrioa together, and though we now go to the white man's home far over the eea, still deep down is the heart of eaoh of ub will ever livo the remembrance of the pluok and fortitude shown by you through>q many dark and trying days."