Long letters have been received from Stanley, dated August 17th,—that
is, before he had left Uzinja for Mpwapwa, where he is now known to have arrived. They recount the method of his relief of Emin Pasha, who arrived on the Albert Nyanza with only 600 followers, and displayed the greatest 'reluctance to commence his march. He vacillated for 44 days,".
and to the last believed that his mutinous soldiers at Wadelai would obey his summons, which of course they did not do. On the contrary, his followers in Stanley's camp laid a plot to steal their host's stock of rifles, and so destroy him. At last the march of 1,500 fugitives commenced, and was continued for three months, to Uzinja. The explorer considers it un- eventful, but he defeated the Wanyoro, a tribe which is the scourge of that part of Africa ; he made many geographical discoveries, particularly one of a range of snow-clad mountains 18,000 ft. high ; and he lost a large proportion of his men from fever, 141 in a single month. It will be remembered that only SOO men reached Mpwapwa, and he must therefore have lost 700 out of the 1,500, doubtless from disease, which is so terrible that the Egyptians, once seized, throw themselves down in the long grass to die.
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