Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . low-traveller, Robert W. Felkin, of Edinburgh, Pasha forms at the present time the central point around whichall the interest in Central Africa revolves, and now that it is generallyknown that the Arabic name Emin is only a cognomen chosen by aGerman, curiosity is aroused, and people are making all kinds of specu-lations as to his birthplace. (675) 676 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS.
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . low-traveller, Robert W. Felkin, of Edinburgh, Pasha forms at the present time the central point around whichall the interest in Central Africa revolves, and now that it is generallyknown that the Arabic name Emin is only a cognomen chosen by aGerman, curiosity is aroused, and people are making all kinds of specu-lations as to his birthplace. (675) 676 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. Edward Schnitzer was born on the 28th of March, 1840, in Oppeln, inthe Prussian province of Silesia. He is the son of the late LudwigSchnitzer and his wife Pauline. His father was a merchant. The family-removed in 1842 from Oppeln to Neisse, where the mother and a sisterof Emin still reside. After being educated in the Gymnasium of Neisse,Edward Schnitzer commenced the study of medicine in 1858 at theBreslau University. He completed his micdical education in Berlin,where he attended the University during 1863 and 1864. and graduated. In 1875 Dr. E. Schnitzer paid a visit to his family in Neisse, and. EMIN PASHA (dr. SCHNITZER). remained mere for a few months, devoting his leisure hours to the studyof Natural History. Suddenly, however, the desire for travel came overhim again; he went by the nearest route to Egypt, and, in 1876, we findthis enterprising man entering the Egyptian service as Dr. Emin was ordered to join the Governor-General of the Soudan at Khar-toum, and from there was sent to act as chief medical officer in theEquatorial Province of Egypt, of which Gordon Pasha was thenGovernor. Gordon was the very one to value a man like Emin, and to use to the THE CELEBRATED EMIN PASHA. 677 full his gifts and powers. He sent, him on tours of inspection throughthe districts which had been annexed to Egypt, and employed him uponseveral diplomatic missions. In March,
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