CHAPTER XXVII.

MEETING OF STANLEY AND EMIN PASHA.

EMIN PASHA ARRIVES BY STEAMER, ACCOMPANIED BY CASATI AND MR. JEPHSON -- MEETING WITH STANLEY -- CAMP TOGETHER FOR TWENTY-SIX DAYS -- STANLEY RETURNS TO FORT BODO -- LEAVES JEPHSON WITH EMIN -- RELIEVES CAPT. NELSON AND LIEUT. STAIRS -- TERRIBLE LOSS SUFFERED BY LIEUT. STAIR’S PARTY -- LEAVES FORT BODO FOR KILONGA-LONGA’S AND UGARROWWA -- THE LATTER DESERTED -- MEETS THE REAR COLUMN OF THE EXPEDITION A WEEK LATER AT BUNALYA -- MEETS BONNY, AND LEARNS OF THE DEATH OF MAJOR BARTTELOT -- TERRIBLE WRECK OF THE REAR COLUMN -- SEVENTY-ONE OUT OF TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SEVEN LEFT -- THE RECORD ONE OF DISASTER, DESERTION AND DEATH -- INTERVIEW WITH EMIN -- EMIN’S CONDITION -- EMIN AND JEPHSON SURROUNDED BY THE REBELS AND TAKEN PRISONERS -- STANLEY’S RETURN A SECOND TIME TO ALBERT NYANZA -- LETTER OF STANLEY GEOGRAPHICALLY DESCRIBING THE FOREST REGION TRAVERSED BY HIM -- SKETCHES THE COURSE OF THE ARUWIMI -- A RETROSPECT OF HIS THRILLING EXPERIENCES AS FAR AS THE VICTORIA NYANZA, AUGUST 28TH, 1889 481