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Title: Daring deeds in the tropics. A thrilling narrative of remarkable adventures, terrible experiences, amazing achievements and important discoveries of great travelers in southern climes
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: (Feather, A. G.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904 Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. E. Potter & co

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er until there would be noneof them left. Supposing you resolve to stay, what of the Egyp-tians ? I asked. Oh! these I shall have to ask you to be goodenough to take with you. Now, will you, Pasha, do me the favor to askCaptain Casati if we are to have the pleasure of hiscompany to the sea, for we have been instructed toassist him also should we meet ? Captain Casati answered through Emin Pasha: What the Governor Emin decides upon shall be therule of conduct for me also. If the Governor stays, Istay. If the Governor goes, I go. Well, I see, Pasha, that in the event of your stay-ing your responsibilities will be great. A laugh. The sentence was translated to Casati,and the gallant Captain replied: Oh ! I beg pardon, but I absolve the Pasha fromall responsibility connected with me, because I am gov-erned by my own choice entirely. ** Thus day after day I recorded faithfully the inter-views I had with Emin Pasha ; but these extracts revealas much as is necessary for you to understand the
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THROUGH THE WILDS OF AFRICA. 491 position. I left Mr. Jephson thirteen of my Soudanese,and sent a message to be read to the troops, as thePasha requested. Everything else is left until I returnwith the united expedition to the Nyanza. Within two months the Pasha proposed to visitFort Bodo, taking Mr. Jephson with him. At FortBodo I have left instructions to the officers to destroythe fort and accompany the Pasha to the Nyanza. Ihope to meet them all again on the Nyanza, as I intendmaking a short cut to the Nyanza along a new road. In a subsequent letter wherein he refers to his returnto the rear, to bring up those of his forces that hadbeen left behind, he says : This has certainly been the most extraordinaryexpedition I have ever led into Africa. A regular divinity seems to have hedged us whilewe journeyed. I say it with all reverence. It hasimpelled us whither it would, effected its own will, butnevertheless guided us and protected us. What can you make of this, for instance? OnAugu

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