Stanley & party emerging from the Dense Ituri Forest, Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1886 to 1889
Illustration from In Darkest Africa by H M Stanley 1890 this edition published 1904. Relief & jubilation as the party finally emerge from the long march through dense forest onto the more welcoming plains of Africa. 220 of the original party of 389 had not survived the journey. Info from Wiki: Mehmed Emin Pasha 1840- 1892 Governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria. The Ottoman Empire conferred the title "Pasha" on him in 1886, and thereafter he was referred to as "Emin Pasha" The revolt of Muhammad Ahmad that began in 1881 had cut Equatoria off from the outside world by 1883, and the following year, Karam Allah marched south to capture Equatoria and Emin. In 1885, Emin and most of his forces withdrew further south, to Wadelai near Lake Albert. His communiques aroused considerable sentiment in Europe in 1886, particularly acute after the death of Gordon the previous year. The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, led by Henry Morton Stanley, undertook to rescue Emin by going up the Congo River and then through the Ituri Forest, an extraordinarily difficult route that resulted in the loss of two-thirds of the expedition. The introduction of sleeping sickness in Uganda was attributed to the movement of Emin and his followers. Prior to the 1890s, sleeping sickness was unknown in Uganda, but the tsetse fly was probably brought by Emin from the Congo territory. He added greatly to the anthropological knowledge of central Africa and published valuable geographical papers.
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Location: Africa
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