2-716-581 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Stanley's Journey through Unknown Central Africa, 1887-1890: His Meeting with Emin Pasha, April 29, 1888, at Kavalli, on Lake Nyanza', (1901). In 1886, Welsh explorer and journalist Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) led the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition to 'rescue' Emin Pasha (1840-1892), governor of Equatoria in the southern Sudan who was threatened by Mahdist forces. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]