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Prefatory Letter to Sir William Mackinnon, Chairman of the Emin Pasha relief expedition 1

The Khedive and the Soudan--Arabi Pasha--Hicks Pasha's defeat--The Mahdi --Sir Evelyn Baring and Lord Granville on the Soudan--Valentine Baker Pasha--General Gordon: his work in the Upper Soudan--Edward Schnitzler and his Province--General Gordon at Khartoum: and account of the Relief Expedition in 1884 under Lord Wolseley--Mr. A. M. Mackay, the missionary in Uganda--Letters from Emin Bey to Mr. Mackay, Mr. C. H. Allen, and Dr. R. W. Felkin, relating to his Province--Mr. F. Holmwood's and Mr. A. M. Mackay's views on the proposed relief of Emin--Suggested routes for the Emin Relief Expedition--Sir Wm. Mackinnon and Mr. J. F. Hutton--The Relief Fund and preparatory details of the Expedition--Colonel Sir Francis De Winton--Selection of officers for the Expedition--King Leopold and the Congo Route--Departure for Egypt 11

Surgeon T. H. Parke--Views of Sir Evelyn Baring, Nubar Pasha, Professor Schweinfurth and Dr. Junker on the Emin Relief Expedition--Details relating to Emin Pasha and his Province--General Grenfell and the ammunition--Breakfast with Khedive Tewfik: message to Emin Pasha--Departure for Zanzibar--Description of Mombasa town--Visit to the Sultan of Zanzibar--Letter to Emin Pasha sent by messenger through Uganda--Arrangements with Tippu-Tib--Emin Pasha's Ivory--Mr. MacKenzie, Sir John Pender, and Sir James Anderson's assistance to the Relief Expedition 49

An African road--Our mode of travelling through the forests--Farewell to Jameson and the Major--160 days in the forest--The Rapids of Yambuya--Attacked by natives of Yankonde--Rest at the village of Bahunga--Description of our march--The poisoned Skewers--Capture of six Babali--Dr. Parke and the bees--A tempest in the forest--Mr. Jephson puts the steel boat together--The village of Bukanda--Refuse heaps of the villages--The Aruwimi river scenery--Villages of the Bakuti and the Bakoka--The Rapids of Gwengwer?--The boy Bakula-Our "chop and coffee"--The islands near Bandangi--The Baburu dwarfs--The unknown course of the river--The Somalis--Bartering at Mariri and Mup?--The Aruwimi at Mup?--The Bab? manners, customs, and dress--Jephson's two adventures--Wasp Rapids--The chief of the Bwamburi--Our camp at My-yui--Canoe accident--An abandoned village--Arrival at Panga Falls--Description of the Falls 134

Another accident at the Rapids--The village of Utiri--Avisibba settlement--Enquiry into a murder case at Avisibba--Surprised by the natives--Lieutenant Stairs wounded--We hunt up the enemy--The poisoned arrows--Indifference of the Zanzibaris--Jephson's caravan missing--Our wounded--Perpetual rain--Deaths of Khalfan, Saadi, and others--Arrival of caravan--The Mabengu Rapids--Mustering the people--The Nepoko river--Remarks by Binza--Our food supply--Reckless use of ammunition--Half-way to the Albert Lake--We fall in with some of Ugarrowwa's men--Absconders--We camp at Hippo Broads and Avakubi Rapids--The destroyed settlement of Navabi--Elephants at Memberri--More desertions--The Arab leader, Ugarrowwa--He gives us information--Visit to the Arab settlement--First specimen of the tribe of dwarfs--Arrangements with Ugarrowwa 171

Ugarrowwa sends us three Zanzibari deserters--We make an example--The 'Express' rifles--Conversation with Rashid--The Lenda river--Troublesome rapids--Scarcity of food--Some of Kilonga-Longa's followers--Meeting of the rivers Ihuru and Ituri--State and numbers of the Expedition--Illness of Captain Nelson--We send couriers ahead to Kilonga-Longa's--The sick encampment--Randy and the guinea fowl--Scarcity of food--Illness caused by the forest pears--Fanciful menus--More desertions--Asmani drowned--Our condition in brief--Uledi's suggestion--Umari's climb--My donkey is shot for food--We strike the track of the Manyuema and arrive at their village 211

The ivory hunters at Ipoto--Their mode of proceeding--The Manyuema headmen and their raids--Remedy for preventing wholesale devastations--Crusade preached by Cardinal Lavigerie--Our Zanzibar chiefs--Anxiety respecting Captain Nelson and his followers--Our men sell their weapons for food--Theft of rifles--Their return demanded--Uledi turns up with news of the missing chiefs--Contract drawn up with the Manyuema headmen for the relief of Captain Nelson--Jephson's report on his journey--Reports of Captain Nelson and Surgeon Parke--The process of blood brotherhood between myself and Ismaili--We leave Ipoto 236

In the country of the Baless?--Their houses and clearings--Natives of Bukiri--The first village of dwarfs--Our rate of progress increased--The road from Mambungu's--Halts at East and West Ind?karu--A little storm between "Three o'clock" and Khamis--We reach Ibwiri--Khamis and the "vile Zanzibaris"--The Ibwiri clearing--Plentiful provisions--The state of my men; and what they had recently gone through--Khamis and party explore the neighbourhood--And return with a flock of goats--Khamis captures Boryo, but is released--Jephson returns from the relief of Captain Nelson--Departure of Khamis and the Manyuema--Memorandum of charges against Messrs. Kilonga-Longa & Co. of Ipoto--Suicide of Simba--Sali's reflections on the same--Lieutenant Stairs reconnoitres--Muster and reorganisation at Ibwiri--Improved condition of the men--Boryo's village--Baless? customs--East Indenduru--We reach the outskirts of the forest--Mount Pisgah--The village of Iyugu--Heaven's light at last; the beautiful grass-land--We drop across an ancient crone--Ind?sura and its products--Juma's capture--The Ituri river again--We emerge upon a rolling plain--And forage in some villages--The mode of hut construction--The district of the Babusess?--Our Mbiri captives--Natives attack the camp--The course of the Ituri--The natives of Abunguma--Our fare since leaving Ibwiri--Mazamboni's Peak--The east Ituri--A mass of plantations--Demonstration by the natives--Our camp on the crest of Nzera Kum--"Be strong and of a good courage"--Friendly intercourse with the natives--We are compelled to disperse them--Peace arranged--Arms of the Bandussuma 255

We are further annoyed by the natives--Their villages fired--Gavira's village--We keep the natives at bay--Plateau of Unyoro in view--Night attack by the natives--The village of Katonza's--Parley with the natives--No news of the Pasha--Our supply of cartridges--We consider our position--Lieutenant Stairs converses with the people of Kasenya Island--The only sensible course left us--Again attacked by natives--Scenery on the lake's shore--We climb a mountain--A rich discovery of grain--The rich valley of Undussuma--Our return journey to Ibwiri--The construction of Fort Bodo 319

Our impending duties--The stockade of Fort Bodo--Instructions to Lieutenant Stairs--His departure for Kilonga-Longa's--Pested by rats, mosquitoes, &c.--Nights disturbed by the lemur--Armies of red ants--Snakes in tropical Africa--Hoisting the Egyptian flag--Arrival of Surgeon Parke and Captain Nelson from Ipoto--Report of their stay with the Manyuema--Lieutenant Stairs arrives with the steel boat--We determine to push on to the Lake at once--Volunteers to convey letters to Major Barttelot--Illness of myself and Captain Nelson--Uledi captures a Queen of the Pigmies--Our fields of corn--Life at Fort Bodo--We again set out for the Nyanza 350

Difficulties with the steel boat--African forest craft--Splendid capture of pigmies, and description of the same--We cross the Ituri River--Dr. Parke's delight on leaving the forest--Camp at Bess?--Zanzibari wit--At Nzera-Kum Hill once more--Intercourse with the natives--"Malleju," or the "Bearded One," being first news of Emin--Visit from chief Mazamboni and his followers--Jephson goes through the form of friendship with Mazamboni--The medicine men, Nestor and Murabo--The tribes of the Congo--Visit from chief Gavira--A Mhuma chief--The Bavira and Wahuma races--The varying African features--Friendship with Mpinga--Gavira and the looking-glass--Exposed Uzanza--We reach Kavalli--The chief produces "Malleju's" letter--Emin's letter--Jephson and Parke convey the steel boat to the lake--Copy of letter sent by me to Emin through Jephson--Friendly visits from natives 373

Age and early days of Emin Pasha--Gordon and the pay of Emin Pasha--Last interview with Gordon Pasha in 1877--Emin's last supply of ammunition and provisions--Five years' isolation--Mackay's library in Uganda--Emin's abilities and fitness for his position--His linguistic and other attainments--Emin's industry--His neat journals--Story related to me by Shukri Agha referring to Emin's escape from Kirri to Mswa--Emin confirms the story--Some natural history facts related to me by Emin--The Pasha and the Dinka tribe--A lion story--Emin and "bird studies" 422

The Relief Force--The difficulties of marching--We reach Ipoto--Kilonga Longa apologises for the behaviour of his Manyuema--The chief returns us some of our rifles--Dr. Parke and fourteen men return to Fort Bodo--Ferrying across the Ituri River--Indications of some of our old camps--We unearth our buried stores--The Manyuema escort--Bridging the Lenda River--The famished Madi--Accidents and deaths among the Zanzibaris and Madi--My little fox-terrier "Randy"--The vast clearing of Ujangwa--Native women guides--We reach Ugarrowwa's abandoned station--Welcome food at Amiri Falls--Navabi Falls--Halt at Avamburi landing-place--Death of a Madi chief--Our buried stores near Basopo unearthed and stolen--Juma and Nassib wander away from the Column--The evils of forest marching--Conversation between my tent-boy, Sali, and a Zanzibari--Numerous bats at Mabengu village--We reach Avisibba, and find a young Zanzibari girl--Nejambi Rapids and Panga Falls--The natives of Panga--At Mugwye's we disturb an intended feast--We overtake Ugarrowwa at Wasp Rapids and find our couriers and some deserters in his camp--The head courier relates his tragic story--Amusing letter from Dr. Parke to Major Barttelot--Progress of our canoe flotilla down the river--The Batundu natives--Our progress since leaving the Nyanza--Thoughts about the Rear Column--Desolation along the banks of the river--We reach Banalya--Meeting with Bonny--The Major is dead--Banalya Camp 468

Tippu-Tib--Major E. M. Barttelot--Mr. J. S. Jameson--Mr. Herbert Ward--Messrs. Troup and Bonny--Major Barttelot's Report on the doings of the Rear Column--Conversation with Mr. Bonny--Major Barttelot's letter to Mr. Bonny--Facts gleaned from the written narrative of Mr. Wm. Bonny--Mr. Ward detained at Bangala--Repeated visits of the Major to Stanley Falls--Murder of Major Barttelot--Bonny's account of the murder--The assassin Sanga is punished--Jameson dies of fever at Bangala Station--Meeting of the advance and rear columns--Dreadful state of the camp--Tippu-Tib and Major Barttelot--Mr. Jameson--Mr. Herbert Ward's report 498

Copy of Log of Rear Column 527

GROUP--MR. STANLEY AND HIS OFFICERS. 1

THE STEEL BOAT "ADVANCE" 80

IN THE NIGHT AND RAIN IN THE FOREST 146

THE FIGHT WITH THE AVISIBBA CANNIBALS 174

WOODEN ARROWS OF THE AVISIBBA 180

"THE PASHA IS COMING" 196

THE RELIEF OF NELSON AND SURVIVORS AT STARVATION CAMP 250

GYMNASTICS IN A FOREST CLEARING 258

IYUGU; A CALL TO ARMS 286

EMERGING FROM THE FOREST 292

FIRST EXPERIENCES WITH MAZAMBONI'S PEOPLE. VIEW FROM NZERA KUM HILL 306

THE SOUTH END OF THE ALBERT NYANZA, DEC. 13, 1887 324

SKETCH-MAP: "RETURN TO UGARROWA'S." BY LIEUTENANT STAIRS 365

EMIN AND CASATI ARRIVE AT LAKE SHORE CAMP 396

A PHALANX DANCE BY MAZAMBONI'S WARRIORS 438

MEETING WITH THE REAR COLUMN AT BANALYA 494

PORTRAIT OF EMIN PASHA 18

" CAPTAIN NELSON 39

" LIEUTENANT STAIRS 40

" WILLIAM BONNY 41

" A. J. MOUNTENEY JEPHSON 42

" SURGEON PARKE, A. M. D. 50

" NUBAR PASHA 51

" THE KHEDIVE TEWFIK 55

" TIPPU-TIB 68

LAUNCHING THE STEAMER "FLORIDA" 96

STANLEY POOL 100

BARUTI FINDS HIS BROTHER 109

A TYPICAL VILLAGE ON THE LOWER ARUWIMI 112

LANDING AT YAMBUYA 113

DIAGRAM OF FOREST CAMPS 130

MARCHING THROUGH THE FOREST 135

THE KIRANGOZI, OR FOREMOST MAN 137

HEAD-DRESS--CROWN OF BRISTLES 160

WASPS' NESTS 164

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