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In Darkest Africa, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria (Classic Reprint)
In Darkest Africa Vol 1 of 2 Or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria - Classic Reprint Author:Henry M. Stanley IN DARKEST AFRICA. PREFATORY LETTER. My DEAR SIR WILLIAM, I have great pleasure in dedicating this hook to yeu. It professes to be the Official Report to yourself and the Emin Relief Committee of what we have experienced and endured during our mission of Relief, which circumstances altered into that of Rescue. You may accept it as a truthful rec... more »ord of the journeyings of the Expedition which you and the Emin Relief Committee entrusted to my gujdance. I regret that I was not able to accomplish all that I burned to do when I set out from England in January, 1887, but the total collapse of the Government of Equatoria thrust upon us the duty of conveying in hammocks so many aged and sick people, and protecting so many helpless and feeble folk, that we became transformed from a small fighting column of tried men into a mere Hospital Corps to whom active adventure was denied. The Governor was half blind and possessed much luggage, Casati was weakly and had to be carried,
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME I; PREFATORY LETTER TO SIR WILLIAM MACKINNON, CHAIRMAN C'F; rAG; THE EMIN PASHA RELIEF EXPEfITION 1; CHAPTER I; INTRODUCTORY CHAI TER; The Khedive and the Soudan-Arabi Pasha-Hicks Pasha's defeatThe; Mahdi-Sir Evelyn Baring and J,ord Granville on the; Soudan-Valentine Baker Pasha-General Gordon: his work; in the Upper Soudan-Edward Schnitzler (or Emin Effendi; Hakim) 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 Felk;u,; 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; oLthe Expedition-Colonel Sir Francis De Winton-Selection of; officers for the Expedition-King Leopold and t« less