File:Meeting of Henry Morton Stanley with Emin Pasha at Kavalli, April 29, 1888.jpg

Identifier: storyofafricaits03brow (find matches)
Title: The story of Africa and its explorers
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London : Cassell
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about one days march fromAlbert l^yonzs^., letters from Emin were de-livered to Mr. Stanley. Two months afterMr. Stanleys descent to the lake, Emin hadheard of the arrival of the expedition andleft these notes for the information of hisfriends. Mr. Jephson, accordingly, set out inthe boat now launched on the lake to searchfor the Pasha, and on the second day cameto MsAva station, the southernmost in theEquatorial Province. At last, on the 29th of April, 1888, theExpedition were gratified to see the Khedives * Ugarrowa, or Uledi Balyiiz, was a tent-boy of Spekes,but at the time Mr. Stanley met him was a very greatman in the slave-raiding line. ARRIVAL OF EMIN. 41 steamer on the lake and in the evening to Contrary to expectations—unwarranted, how-welcome Emin Pasha, Captain ever, considering his previous declarationsEmin arrives. ^^^^^.^ ^^^ ^ number of Egyptian —he and his friends displayed no anxietyofficers who had come with them. For more to take that step. As he had repeatedly
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MEETING OF EMIN PASHA AND ME. STANLEY AT KAVALLlS, APRIL 29, 1888. than three weeks Emin and his friends stayed asserted in his letters to Europe, he had the with Stanley in camp at Nsabe. The latter oc- utmost reluctance to desert his post. He cupied most of the time in trying to persuade declared that the soldiers had no inclina- the Pasha to return to Egypt with his followers, tion to evacuate the Soudan. The few 42 TEE STOBY OF AFRICA. Europeanised officials — Vita Hassan theapothecary, and Marco the Greek, for ex-ample—might desire this course; but eventhe Egyptians of considerable rank in themilitary service had by this time begun toregard the Equatorial Province as theirhome. They had wives and children andgardens, and they held a position and en-joyed an ease which could not be expectedin Cairo and on the Lower Nile. Nor was Emin himself, or his companionCaptain Casati, any more inclined to seekcivilisation. Mr. Stanley, indeed, declares thatthey seemed quite content to re

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