3-077-751 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition: Mr. Stanley and his comrades at Mombasa: native school-children at the Church Missionary Station singing the National Anthem, 1890. 'Our Special Artist, Mr. Joseph Bell, was at Zanzibar on Dec. 29, in time to meet Mr. Stanley there, and to arrange for the use of those original materials which were put into shape for the Illustrated London News by him and by Lieutenant W. G. Stairs, R.E., Mr. A. J. Mounteney-Jephson. and Captain R. H. Nelson, during their voyage on board the steam-ship Katoria up the Red Sea to Suez...We have already narrated the incidents of Mr. Stanley's visit on Jan. 1 and next day to Mombasa, the headquarters of the British East Africa Company, where he was the guest of Mr. George Mackenzie, the Resident Agent [for the Company]. Our Special Artist's sketch there shows the scene at the station of the Church Missionary Society, when the native school-children, directed by their English teachers, sang "God Save the Queen".' From "Illustrated London News", 1890.