Identifier: indarkestafricao00henr (find matches)
Title: In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Henry M. Stanley
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Publisher: Scribner
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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rnment has been greatly augmented, and therefore■we hope, with the help of God, to be very soon with you, and to informyou of this we have written this letter. Wadelai.Mabruk Shereef, Lieutenant. Ali el Kurdi, Lieutenant.Noor Abd el bein „ Ahmed Sultan „ Mustapha Ahmed „ Fadl el Mula Bakhit „ Halid Abdallah „ Dais el Bint Abdallah „ Faraj Sid Hamed „ Said Ibrahim „ Mursal Sudan „ Hussein Mohamed, Captain. Muijan Ndeen „ Murjan Idris „ Sabah el Hami „ Mustapha el Adjemi „ Bakhit Mohamed „ Kher Yusuf es Said „ Adeen Ahmed „ Marjan Bakhit „ Ismail Hussein „ Surur Sudan „ Mohamed Abdu „ Abdallah Mauzal „ Halid Majib „ Fadl el Mulla el Emin „ Ahmed Idris „ Ahmed el Dinkani „ Eehan Eashid „ Kadi Ahmed „ Eikas Hamed en Nil „ Said Abd es Sid „ Halil Sid Almaed „ Bakhit Bergoot, Adjutant Major. Feraj Mohamed „ Bilal Dinkani „ I then said : I have heard with attention what youhave spoken. I shall give you a written promise to the
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ARBIVAL OF LIEUT. STAIRS. 155 effect that you are granted a sufficient time to proceed i889.from here to Wadelai to collect your troops and embark ^^^- ^®-them with your families on board the steamers. It ^^^^takes five days for a steamer to proceed to Wadelai, andfive days to return. I shall give you a reasonable timefor this work, and if I see that you are really serious inyour intentions, I shall be quite willing to extend thetime in order that we may proceed homeward incomfort. Selim Bey and his officers answered simultaneously, We are serious in our intentions, and there is no occasionfor delay. To which I,wholly convinced, readily assentedThe meeting terminated. An ox was presented to themand their followers for meat rations ; and ten gallons ofbeer, with loads of sweet potatoes and bananas, weredispatched to their quarters for their entertainment. At noon, Stairs column rolled into camp with pilesof wealth—Remington, Maxim and Winchester fixedammunition, gunpowder, percussio

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