. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... irsttime that the Pasha hadhad no province, govern-ment, nor soldiers fornearly five years; that hewas living undisturbed,and that some yieldedsometimes to his wishes,apparently through meresufferance and lack of le-gitimate excuse to cast himoff utterly. But when hepermittedhimselfbyagustof awakened optimism toventure into the presenceof his soldiers, he was atonce arrested, insulted,menaced and imprisoned. The remainder of the story is briefly told^ for
. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... irsttime that the Pasha hadhad no province, govern-ment, nor soldiers fornearly five years; that hewas living undisturbed,and that some yieldedsometimes to his wishes,apparently through meresufferance and lack of le-gitimate excuse to cast himoff utterly. But when hepermittedhimselfbyagustof awakened optimism toventure into the presenceof his soldiers, he was atonce arrested, insulted,menaced and imprisoned. The remainder of the story is briefly told^ for they were nowin a country that was comparatively well known. November10, the expedition arrived at Mpwapwa, on the fifty-fifth dayfrom Victoria Nyanza, and the hundred and eighty-eighthfrom Albert Nyanza. The Europeans accompanying Stanleywere Stairs, Nelson, Jephson, Parke, Bonny, Hoffman, EminPasha and daughter, Casati, Marco, and Fathers Grault andSchinze of the Algerian Mission. As they neared Bagamoyothey were met by Major Wissmann, and heartily welcomed backto civilization. A few words may here be devoted to this gallant German. Maj. Wissmann. 820 THE RETURN MARCH OF STANLEY AND EMIN. officer, who had made such great efforts for the accomplish-ment of that which Stanley had really done. Born at Frank-fort on the Oder, in 1853, he was but twenty when he becamea second lieutenant in the Prussian army. The attainment ofthis rank permitted him to resign; this he did at once, prof-fering his services to the African Society of Berlin. Theywere accepted, and he was appointed topographer to an expe-dition which that association w^as then arranging for WesternAfrica, under the leadership of Dr. Pogge. The expedition reached its starting-point on the west coastearly in 1881, and completed the journey across the continentin less than two years. Wissmann again left Germany for Af-rica in 1883, under the auspices of the International African As-sociation. It was during this trip that
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