3-078-030 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Advertisement for Special Number, pictures of Stanley's Expedition for the Relief of Emin Pasha, 1890. 'Fourth Edition now Publishing. A SPECIAL NUMBER OF THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, FULL OF PICTURES OF STANLEY'S EXPEDITION FOR THE RELIEF OF EMIN PASHA Engraved from Sketches supplied by Officers of the Expedition. WITH THIS NUMBER ARE PRESENTED TWO EXTRA SUPPLEMENTS: A Large Tinted Portrait of Mr. H. M. Stanley and a Double-Page Picture of the Meeting of Mr. Stanley & Emin Pasha. PRICE ONE SHILLING; Inland Postage, One Halfpenny'. The goal of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1887 to 1889, led by journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, was ostensibly the relief of Emin Pasha, the besieged Egyptian governor of Equatoria (part of modern-day South Sudan), who was threatened by Mahdist forces. It was one of the last major European expeditions into the interior of Africa in the nineteenth century. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.