. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... the march from Yambuyato Bunalya insixteen days, despite native opposition. The rear column per-formed the same distance in forty-three days. According to , during the thirteen months and twenty days that hadelapsed since I had left Yambuya, the record is only one ofdisaster, desertion and death. I have not the heart to go intothe details, many of which are incredible, and, indeed, I havenot the time, for excepting Mr. Bonny, I have no one to assi
. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... the march from Yambuyato Bunalya insixteen days, despite native opposition. The rear column per-formed the same distance in forty-three days. According to , during the thirteen months and twenty days that hadelapsed since I had left Yambuya, the record is only one ofdisaster, desertion and death. I have not the heart to go intothe details, many of which are incredible, and, indeed, I havenot the time, for excepting Mr. Bonny, I have no one to assistme in reorganizing the expedition. There are still far moreloads than I can carry; at the same time articles needful aremissing. For instance, I left Yambuya with only a short cam-paigning kit, leaving my reserve of clothing and personal effectsin charge of the officers. In December some deserters fromthe advance column reached Yambuya to spread the reportthat I was dead. They had no papers with them, but the offi-cers seemed to accept the report of these deserters as a fact,and in January Mr. Ward, at an officers mess meeting, pro-. STANLEY RESCUES EMIN PASHA. 761 posed that my instructions should be canceled. The only onewho appears to have dissented was Mr. Bonny. Accordingly,my personal kit, medicines, soap, candles, and provisions weresent down the Congo as superfluities! Thus, after makingthis immense personal sacrifice to relieve them and cheer themup, I find myself naked, and deprived of even the necessariesof life in Africa. But, strange to say, they have kepttwo hats,four pairs of boots, and a flannel jacket; and I propose to goback to Emin Pasha and across Africa with this truly Africankit. Livingstone, poor fellow, was all in patches when I methim, but it will be the reliever himself who will be in patchesthis time. Fortunately not one of my officers will envy me,for their kits are intact—it was only myself that was dead. Major Barttelot had fallen because of th
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