THE FIGHT WITH THE AVISIBBA CANNIBALS 174
THE RIVER COLUMN ASCENDING THE ARUWIMI RIVER WITH THE "ADVANCE" AND SIXTEEN CANOES. 184
THE RELIEF OF NELSON AND SURVIVORS AT STARVATION CAMP 250
FIRST EXPERIENCES WITH MAZAMBONI'S PEOPLE. VIEW FROM NZERA KUM HILL 306
THE SOUTH END OF THE ALBERT NYANZA, DEC. 13, 1887 324
SKETCH-MAP: "RETURN TO UGARROWA'S." BY LIEUTENANT STAIRS 365
EMIN AND CASATI ARRIVE AT LAKE SHORE CAMP 396
A PHALANX DANCE BY MAZAMBONI'S WARRIORS 438
MEETING WITH THE REAR COLUMN AT BANALYA 494
A TYPICAL VILLAGE ON THE LOWER ARUWIMI 112
CORONETED AVISIBBA WARRIOR--HEAD-DRESS 179
ATTACKING AN ELEPHANT IN THE ITURI RIVER 203
VIEW OF MOUNT PISGAH FROM THE EASTWARD 281
VILLAGES OF THE BAKWURU ON A SPUR OF PISGAH 283
SUSPENSION BRIDGE ACROSS THE EAST ITURI 304
VIEW OF THE SOUTH END OF ALBERT NYANZA 318
A VILLAGE OF THE BAVIRI: EUROPEANS TAILORING 345
PLAN OF FORT BODO AND VICINITY, BY LIEUTENANT STAIRS 354
THE STEAMERS "KHEDIVE" AND "NYANZA" ON LAKE ALBERT 426
A MAP OF THE GREAT FOREST REGION, SHOWING THE ROUTE OF THE EMIN PASHA RELIEF EXPEDITION FROM THE RIVER CONGO TO VICTORIA NYANZA. BY HENRY M. STANLEY. _In Pocket._
[Illustration: GROUP OF MR. STANLEY AND OFFICERS.]
I have great pleasure in dedicating this book to you. It professes to be the Official Report to yourself and the Emin Relief Committee of what we have experienced and endured during our mission of Relief, which circumstances altered into that of Rescue. You may accept it as a truthful record of the journeyings of the Expedition which you and the Emin Relief Committee entrusted to my guidance.
I regret that I was not able to accomplish all that I burned to do when I set out from England in January, 1887, but the total collapse of the Government of Equatoria thrust upon us the duty of conveying in hammocks so many aged and sick people, and protecting so many helpless and feeble folk, that we became transformed from a small fighting column of tried men into a mere Hospital Corps to whom active adventure was denied. The Governor was half blind and possessed much luggage, Casati was weakly and had to be carried, and 90 per cent. of their followers were, soon after starting, scarcely able to travel from age, disease, weakness or infancy. Without sacrificing our sacred charge, to assist which was the object of the Expedition, we could neither deviate to the right or to the left, from the most direct road to the sea.