With Stanley's Rear Column (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1890. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX B. CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING THE EXPEDITION FOR THE RELIEF OF EMIN PASHA.* No. 1. Acting Consul-General Holmwood to the Earl of Tddcsleigh. (Received October 25.) Zanzibar, September 23, 1886. (Extract.) I telegraphed to your Lordship to-day, giving the heads of the latest intelligence from Emin Bey at Wadelai. I also transmitted to Sir Evelyn Baring at Cairo a brief account of Emin's situation. The sources from which this information was derived were: letters from Mr. Mac'cay, of the Church Missionary Society at Uganda, dated the 14th and 26th May and 28th June; letters from Emin Bey, dated Lado, 16th November, 1884, and Wadelai, 1st January and 27th February, 1886. Besides these, I have been shown a letter from Mr. Mackay to the Society's agent here, dated the 12th July, and two letters from Dr. Junker and one from Emin Bey to the German ConsulGeneral. The last of these letters, dated the 16th August, was .written from Msalala, the Church Mission dep6t on the south of the Victoria Lake. I have also seen a number of Arabic letters .written by Emin Bey and officers of his Staff. 1 This Parliamentary Paper appears by the kind permission of the Comptroller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Mr. Mackay writes that they are in great danger and practically prisoners, and that their every action is reported to the King, unless in instances where they can secure silence by bribery. After Dr. Junker's departure the King stopped the porters he had engaged to carry supplies to Emin, and it was uncertain whether he would eventually permit their leaving. The other letters confirm generally all that Mr. Mackay writes. Dr. Junker was proceeding at once to Uyui, and anticipated arriving at Zanzibar towards the end of the year. He speaks in the highest terms of Emin's...