3-077-728 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

H. M. Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition: entry of Emin Pasha and Mr. Jephson into Dufilé, on the Nile, 1890. '...Emin Pasha (Dr. Schnitzer), the beleaguered Governor of the Equatorial Province of the Soudan, had been left, since the capture of Khartoum and the death of General Gordon, in a perilous situation at Wadelai...Several officers...furnished [our] Special Artist...with sketches and descriptive notes...Those supplied by Mr. Jephson, as the only European witness of the revolt of Emin Pasha's Arab officers and Soudanese troops at Laboré, Dufilé, and the other Egyptian stations...have much historical importance...[It was in July 1888] that Mr. Jephson, appointed by Mr. Stanley to accompany Emin Pasha, and to explain to the Egyptian garrisons how it was proposed to arrange for their departure, if they chose to quit the country, having left the camp on Lake Albert Nyanza, with Emin Pasha, who was returning to the Nile stations, first arrived at Dufilé [in modern Uganda], where they were then received with the customary tokens of respect, as is shown in our Illustration. But a few weeks afterwards...the grossest indignities awaited them, followed by a three-months imprisonment, from which they were released in November'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.