. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . well that ends well. While halting at Msua, the Baron von Gravenreutharrived, with 100 soldiers. The Baron is a dashingsoldier, fond of the excitement of battle-strife, and in hisattacks on the zeribas of the coast Arabs has displayedconsiderable skill. It was most amusing to hear himremind me how he had once applied to me for advicerespecting equipment and conduct in Africa, and thatI had paternally advised him to read The Congo andthe Founding of its Free State, an advice—I maytell you now—I followed, an
. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . well that ends well. While halting at Msua, the Baron von Gravenreutharrived, with 100 soldiers. The Baron is a dashingsoldier, fond of the excitement of battle-strife, and in hisattacks on the zeribas of the coast Arabs has displayedconsiderable skill. It was most amusing to hear himremind me how he had once applied to me for advicerespecting equipment and conduct in Africa, and thatI had paternally advised him to read The Congo andthe Founding of its Free State, an advice—I maytell you now—I followed, and I am glad of it. Soon after appeared two correspondents of Americannewspapers, one of whom was Mr. Thomas Stevens, andthe other Mr. Edmund Vizetelly, representing the NewYorkPIerald. The last-named gentleman brought usqiute a number of well-selected articles for personalcomfort and some provisions, by request of Mr. JamesGordon Bennett, the proprietor of the Journal in whoseservice I had undertaken two previous expeditions intoAfrica, and had accompanied Sir Rol)ert Napier into. Nov. 2aMsua. AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS. 453 Abyssinia in 1867 and 1868, and Sir Garnet Wolseley 1889,into Ashantee in 1873 and 1874. Two marches from Msua an expedition from theImperial British East African Company arrived in ourcamp, conveying for our use 170 porter-loads of rice,and twenty-five cases of European provisions, clothingand boots, so that each person in the column receivedtwenty-two pounds of rice, besides rations of salt, sugar,jams and biscuits. The evening of December 3rd, as we were conversingin the moonlight, the sound of a cannon was heard. Itwas the evening gun at Zanzibar, and the Zanzibaris setup ear-piercing cries of joy at that which announced tothem that the long journey across the Continent wasdrawing near its close, and the Egyptians and theirfollowers echoed the shouts as the conviction dawned onthem that within the next twenty-four hours theyshould see the ocean, on which w
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