. The story of the rear column of the Emin Pasha relief expedition [microform] . Explorers; Birds; Insects; Explorateurs; Oiseaux; Insectes. im'TEii. 201 April 16//i.âNi«;ht aj^ain, luid time to writr to you. Vou have no idea what a lot of sketching I have done. My diary at Yaird)iiya ( ainp is very nearly on(3 l)a^(' of writing and th(;n one of (hawin«^ all throuj^li. I used }it first to copy fi«^uros, and faces (hawn l)y Ward, but wlien I left for Stanley Falls this last tiiruj I took to (hii\vin<^ human fij^ures, witli and witliout clotijes, my- self. 1 am awfully anxious to make a sk
. The story of the rear column of the Emin Pasha relief expedition [microform] . Explorers; Birds; Insects; Explorateurs; Oiseaux; Insectes. im'TEii. 201 April 16//i.âNi«;ht aj^ain, luid time to writr to you. Vou have no idea what a lot of sketching I have done. My diary at Yaird)iiya ( ainp is very nearly on(3 l)a^(' of writing and th(;n one of (hawin«^ all throuj^li. I used }it first to copy fi«^uros, and faces (hawn l)y Ward, but wlien I left for Stanley Falls this last tiiruj I took to (hii\vin<^ human fij^ures, witli and witliout clotijes, my- self. 1 am awfully anxious to make a sketch of'ri|)|)u- Tih, hut my h(;art fails me every tinu; 1 think of it, for he is a difficult suhject, and I um anythiufjj else you may lik(? to call me hut a portrait ])ainter. 1 sent home a lot of drawinf^-])a|)(!r which I could not carry, and now I would willin<i;ly give a guinea a sheet for it 'X\\i\ Major and 1 have been thrown more tog(;ther than any of tlic others, having been l(;ft alone at the camp for a long time, and we have k(^j)t up the same sort of intimacy ever since the others arrived. Me is a real honest gentl(;man, and I cannot say more. We both come to one another for advice at any moment, and he has been placed in a hard and difficult position with Mr. Stanley, who, no matter what you do, is sure to say it is wrong. We shall both be blamed, I know, for the long delay in Yambuya (.'am[), but (iod knows we have (lone everything in our power to prevent it. Out of the whole force in our camp, we could only muster eighty sound m(!n, and of what use would it be to go after Mr. Stanley with this force, when Ik?, with 400 men, sixty of whom (besides officers) \\v\\\ armed with A\Mn- chester rifles, a Maxim gun, and all the rest armed with Remingtons, has evidently met with opposition which prevents him from either returning to us, or from sending us any message ? Twice liarttelot aiul I have been going to start with the fi;w men we could scrape together, a
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