. The story of the rear column of the Emin Pasha relief expedition [microform] . Explorers; Birds; Insects; Explorateurs; Oiseaux; Insectes. DTARY. 163 they will sell to him. This, it seems, ^s the real reason whv he got nothing yesterday. Glorious news, if it only turns out to be true! A white man (or men) is coming down the river with a larii;e })arty, some in canoes, some on land, and they will be hero in three days' time. This must be Stanley or messengers from him. Thank God, there are now liopes of doing something at last. The day I hear we hiive to go up to the Lake, I shall certainly d
. The story of the rear column of the Emin Pasha relief expedition [microform] . Explorers; Birds; Insects; Explorateurs; Oiseaux; Insectes. DTARY. 163 they will sell to him. This, it seems, ^s the real reason whv he got nothing yesterday. Glorious news, if it only turns out to be true! A white man (or men) is coming down the river with a larii;e })arty, some in canoes, some on land, and they will be hero in three days' time. This must be Stanley or messengers from him. Thank God, there are now liopes of doing something at last. The day I hear we hiive to go up to the Lake, I shall certainly do a dance round my old helmet and jump upon it! The Major has a bad touch of fever. yoremhcr l^th.—Natives still tell the same tale about tlie white man and many followers coming dow^n the river. We are all in great spirits at the prospect of making a move at last! Had the fence round our graveyard repaired to-day, and new^ headstones, or rather sticks, placed to all the graves, which now number twenty-five. Xovenib")' 11th.—To-day all our hopes w'ere scattered to the winds. The chief Arab informed us that the news of Stanley's approach is false. A large party of Arabs, the chief of whom is almost white, passed through here some time ago, and went up the river on an ivory and slave-hunting expedition, and it is their return to which the natives refer. Sketched a couple of barbets. The Major is better. A Zanzibari died to-day, making the 2Gth mound in our graveyard. yovemher 12th.—Shot a small squirrel, of w^hich I made a sketch life-size. Began building a large new liouse to-day, half of it for a mess-room, the other half as the Major's dwelling-house. November loth.—Had to lie up all day. Full of rheumatism. November 14f/i"j to > Laid up with jaundice, November 'dOth. ) ii2 1887. Nov. 9. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these i
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