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to bring up all hands. He left Jephson, 3 Sudanese, and 2 Zanzibaris 

 with Bmiu, who gave him 102 natives as porters, and 3 irregulars to 

 accompany him back. Fort Bodo was reached on June 8, and was 

 found in a flourishing state, surrounded by acres of cultivated fields. 

 But of the 56 men left at Ugarowwa's only 16 were alive for Lieut- 

 enant Stairs to bring to Fort Bodo. As there was no sign of the 

 rear column nor of the 20 messengers sent off in March with letters for 

 Major Barttelot, Stanley felt bound to retrace his steps through the 

 terrible forest. This time he was better provisioned, and his people 

 (212) escaped the horrors of the wilderness. 



Fort Bodo was left on June 16, Stanley letting all his white com- 

 panions remain behind. Ugarowwa's camp was deserted, and he him- 

 self, with a flotilla of fifty-seven canoes, was overtaken far down the 

 river on August 10, and with him, 17 of the carriers sent off to Major 

 Barttelot in March ; 3 of their number had been killed. On the 17th 

 the rear column was met with at Boualya, 80 miles above Yambuya, 

 and then for the first time Stanley learned of the terrible disaster that 

 had befallen it — Barttelot shot by the Mauyuema ; Jameson gone 

 down the Congo (only to die) ; Ward away : and Troup invalided home. 

 No one but Dr. Bonny ; of the 257 men only 72 remaining, and of these 

 only 52 fit for service. No wonder Mr. Stanley felt too sick to write 

 the details ; and until we have the whole of the evidence it would be 

 unfair to pronounce judgment. One thing we may say : we know, from 

 Mr. Werner's recently published " River Life on the Congo," that 

 before Major Barttelot left Yambuya to follow Stanley it was known 

 to Mr. Werner, to more than one Belgian officer, to several natives, 

 and to the Mauyuema people with Barttelot, that instructions had been 

 given by Tippu Tip to these last to shoot Major Barttelot if he did not 

 treat them well. Yet no one cared to warn the Major and he was 

 allowed to depart to his almost certain fate. The thing is too sicken- 

 ing to dwell upon. It was at this stage that Stanley sent home his 

 first letters, which reached England on April 1, 1889, 20 months after 

 he started from the Aruwimi, and over 2 years after he left England. The 

 relief was intense ; all sorts of sinister rumors had been floated, and 

 most people had given up the expedition for lost. 



Once more back through the weary forest, with the expedition re- 

 organized. A new route was taken to the north of the river through a 

 region devasted by the Arab slavers ; and here the expedition came 

 near to starvation, but once more Fort Bodo was reached, on Decem- 

 ber 20. Here things were practically as Stanley had left them ; there 

 was no sign of Emin, though he had promised to come to the fort. 

 The combined expedition marched onwards, and Mr. Stanley, pushing 

 on with a contingent, reached the lake for the third time, on January 

 18, only to learn that Emin and Jephson had been made prisoners by 

 Emin's own men ; the Mahdists had attacked the station and created 

 a panic, and all was disorganization and vacillation. At last, however, 



