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Stanley's Emin Pasha expedition

Chapter 25: FOOTNOTES:
By A.-J. Wauters
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The narrative chronicles a relief expedition into central Africa prompted by political upheaval in the Sudan and the isolation of an imprisoned provincial leader. It follows the organizer's progress across the Congo basin, documenting encounters with diverse local communities, oppressive terrain, and logistical strain. The account records internal disorder, violent incidents that remove key officers, and the difficult junction when rescuers and the isolated leader finally meet. The retreat is portrayed as hazardous, marked by shortage of food, hostile activity, and arduous river and mountain travel. Interspersed chapters provide background on earlier explorers, regional geography, and the military and diplomatic circumstances that motivated the venture.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] A. J. Wauters, Le Mouvement geographique, 1885–1887.

[2] Schweinfurth, “Heart of Africa,” vol. ii. p. 12.

[3] Schweinfurth, “Heart of Africa,” vol. ii. p. 85.

[4] Ibid., vol. ii. p. 119.

[5] Since then five other stations have been reoccupied. These are Makraka-Sugaire and Wandy in the Makraka country, Mahagi on Lake Albert, and Faloro and Fadibek in the interior, east of the Nile.

[6] It now seems tolerably certain that the White Pasha whose exploits were re-echoed from Khartoum was Captain von Gèle, of the Congo Free State, who at the beginning of the year had been arrested in his exploration of the Welle, by the hostility of the Yakoma people, near the confluence of the Mbomo, which has its source somewhere in proximity to the sources of nearly all the principal affluents of the Bahr-el-Ghazal.

Transcriber’s Notes:

1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.

2. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.

3. Where appropriate, the original spelling has been retained.