Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . , whom he married shortly before leaving Cairo,and who insisted upon sharing his dangerous journey. Clear-headed, courageous, and of decision which quickly manifesteditself in action when emergency required, few women couldhave performed the duties which she took upon herself, andwhich she did so well. The expedition left Cairo in April, 1861; about half a yearafter Speke had left Zanzibar. That it had only reached Gon-dokoro by the time that Speke and Gran
Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . , whom he married shortly before leaving Cairo,and who insisted upon sharing his dangerous journey. Clear-headed, courageous, and of decision which quickly manifesteditself in action when emergency required, few women couldhave performed the duties which she took upon herself, andwhich she did so well. The expedition left Cairo in April, 1861; about half a yearafter Speke had left Zanzibar. That it had only reached Gon-dokoro by the time that Speke and Grant arrived there, by amuch longer and more diflacult route, is explained by the factthat Mr. Baker found it would be necessary, before proceed-ing very far, to acquire a knowledge of the Arabic. He accord-inglv spent a vear in exploring the Atbara and the Blue Nile, 199 200 SIR SAMUEL W. BAKER AND HIS HEROIC LADY. and in the study of this tongue. June 11, 1862, he was atKhartoom, armed with a sufficient knowledge of Arabic tocarry him through his intercourse with the native tribes, andready to prosecute his journey up the White Sir Samuel White Baker. Some incidents of the journey may well be repeated here, asshowing the character of the country through which theypassed, and giving some idea of the fauna of the incidents are best told in Bakers own words, prefaced SIR SAMUEL W. BAKER AND HIS HEROIC LADY. 201 only by such brief explanation as may be necessary to showthe circumstances which are supplied, in the original work, bythe natural course of the narrative. Passing over the long journeys through the desert, we take
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