3-077-629 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. A. J. Mounteney Jephson, 1890. 'The march from Yambuya to Kavalli, distant 322 geographical miles...occupied Mr. [Henry Morton] Stanley's party above five months...the scarcity of food, with grievous sickness, dysentery, ulcers, and other miseries, reduced the men to extreme debility, and their number dwindled from 389 to 173 from deaths and desertions. The European companions of Mr. Stanley were...Surgeon Thomas H. Parke, of the Army Medical Service; Captain R. H. Nelson; and Mr. A. J. Mounteney Jephson...Mr. Jephson, when Mr. Stanley made his return march westward, proceeded with Emin Pasha to Wadelai, on the White Nile, to assist in explaining to the Egyptian troops how this expedition was to relieve them. He was detained many months, partly by Emin Pasha's indecision, partly by the treacherous plots and mutinies of the Soudanese soldiery; and both Emin Pasha and Mr. Jephson were actually prisoners during three months of 1888...Mr. A. J. Mounteney Jephson belongs to the family of which the head is now Major-General Sir Stanhope Jephson, C.B., the fourth Baronet, an officer distinguished for Indian service. As the writer of a clever novel and other literary productions, Mr. Jephson was already known'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.