The safety of Stanley and Emin Pasha would appear to
be assured. Captain Wissmann, Commandant of the German settlements in East Africa, has received a letter from Mpwapwa, .dated the 10th inst., announcing their arrival at that station, which is on German territory. All the Europeans are safe, and most of the native followers, and they bring with them a large store of ivory. They have been three months marching from the south of the Victoria Nyanza; but they had large supplies, and were greatly aided by the pre- sence of a body of Soudanese soldiers, who appear to have been faithful to Emin. They were pursued, apparently from some southern point in the Equatorial Provinces, by the Mahdists ; but Emin Pasha contrived to beat them back. The narrative of their adventures will be one of the most exciting stories ever published, but there is no hope that the southern valley of the Nile has been saved from the fanatics. They and their allies, the slave-stealers, reign from Khartoum to the Lakes, and will soon be heard of moving rapidly to the West. They have the wealth of the Equatorial Province at their disposal, and as their march is both for conversion and plunder, they will draw thousands of recruits from the Arabian coast. If they had but Suakim or Maasowab, they would draw armies.
