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fore you in dealing with the pasha's people.
l trust you will arrive before the Mahdists
are reinforced, or our case will be desperate.
"Yours faithfully,

"JEPHsoN."
Stanley answered: 81 have read your let
tiers half dozen times over, but fail to
grasp the situation thoroughly, because in
some important details one letter c0ntradicts
the other. In one you say the pasha is a
close prisoner while you are allowed a eer-
tain amount of liberty; in the otner you say
that you will come to me as soon as you
hear Of our arrival here and 4 trust you
say. that the pasha will be able to, accom-
how you could leave Tunguru at all. All
this Is not very clear to us, who are fresh
from the bush. If the pasha can come send
a courier on your arrival at our old camp on
the lake below here, to announce the fact,
and / will send strong detachment TO escort
him up to the plateau, even to carry him IL
he needs it. teel too exhausted
AFTER MY 1900 MILES OF TRAVEL
since lparted from you last May, to 60
down to the lake again. The pasha must
have some pity for me. Don't be alarmed or
uneasy on our account. Nothing hostile
can approach us within IL miles without my
eDdYg popuaan and an Ins # saa9d oi war
note within four hours can have 1000 war
riors to assist me to repel the force disposed
to violence and II 1t is to be war, why then
/ am ready for the cunningest Arab alive.
want to, help the pasha somehow. but he
January 10th, Stanley received with this
batch of letters two notes from
the pasha himself, confirming the
above. But not a word from either Jephson
or the pasha. indicating the pasha's purpose.
Did he still wayer, or was he at last resolved.
With any other man than the pasha, or
Gordon, one would imagine that being a
prisoner and a fierce enemy, h0ully expect
ing to give the coup mortal, he would gladly
embrace the first chance to escape from the
country, given up by his government, but
there was no hint in these letters what
course the Pasha would follow. Stanley
wrote a private postscript for Jephson's per-
sual, as follows:
81 could save dozen pashas if they were
and implore the pasha to be sensible of his
own case. He is wise enough in all things
else, even for his own interest Be kind and
good to him for his many virtues, but do not
you be drawn into the fatal fascination the
Soudan territory seems 10 nave nave .d6a, IoT al
ground, they seem to be drawn into whirl-
pool, which sucks them in and covers them
with its waves. The only way to avoid it is
to obey blindly, devotedly. and unquestion-
ingly all orders from the outside. The COM
mittee said, Relieve Emin with this ammu-
milton. If he wishes to come out, the
ammunition will enable him to do so. If he
elects to stay, it will be of service to him.
The khediye said the same thing and added
that if the pasha and his officers wished to
ity. Sir Evelyn Barring said the same thingin
clear, decided words, and here l am, after
400 miles of trgvel, with the last iEstalment
of relief. Let him who is authorized to take
it take it and come / am ready to send him
all my strength and will assist him, but this
time there must be no hesitation, but posi-
tive yea or nay, and home we go.
"Yours sincerely,
STANLEY"
Mr.. MacKinnon has received another let
ter dated August II, in which the explorer
tells of Emin's joining him on February II.
Emin's people were still rebelious, and
Stanley was obliged to fog some of them to
exact obedience. Incipient rebellions were
several times discovered in the camp. 1t
was evident that Emin's authority was gone.
Selim Bey and Emin's Egyptian followers
who were to join the expedition did not do
so. There was much sickness, there being
150 cases OF fever in one day. Stanley him.
self had a severe illness. In July the expe-
dition lost 141 Egyptions, and many were left
behind to the care of natives of whose Ian
guage they were ignorant.