Chapter I: Front Matter

_Life Stories for Young People_

EMIN PASHA

_Translated from the German of
M. C. Plehn_

BY
GEORGE P. UPTON
_Translator of "Memories," "Immensee," etc._

WITH FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS

CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1912

Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1912
Published September, 1912

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Translator's Preface

Emin Pasha, sometimes called "the father of the Equatorial Provinces," is a notable figure in the records of African exploration. He was preëminently a scientist and was devotedly fond of zoology and botany. Amid all his cares of office, his sufferings from the hardships of African exploration, his neglect and ill-treatment at the hands of the Khedive and his ill-health and growing blindness, he pursued his scientific investigations with passionate ardor.

No African explorer ever had the welfare of the Soudanese more at heart than he, and yet he met a cruel fate at the hands of treacherous Arabs and was murdered while studying his favorite plants and birds. In all his long career he never injured anyone, but constantly strove for the welfare of the natives and retained his confidence in them after it was apparent to almost everyone else that they were treacherously conspiring against him.

The German author now and then hints at friction between Emin Pasha and Stanley, and is inclined to blame Stanley for indifference as to Emin's fate after he had been sent to bring him relief. The friction, if it existed, was probably due to the different temperaments of the two men. Emin Pasha was conservative, blindly attached to the Soudanese, certain he could govern them by mild measures, a quiet, reserved scholar passionately devoted to scientific pursuits and at home in Africa, rather than an explorer. Stanley was a man of action, bold, and dashing, who, in the phrase of the day, might be called "a hustler." It is undoubtedly true that at times he had little patience with Emin's slowness and cautiousness and his scientific absorption which sometimes rendered him oblivious to dangers besetting him.

G. P. U.

Chicago, _July, 1912_

Contents

Chapter Page
I The Father of His People 11
II The Slave Question 21
III The Carpenter of Dongola and the Mahdists 26
IV Calm Before the Storm 33
V The Enemy Approaches 39
VI Casati's Adventure 45
VII In Need of Help 57
VIII Stanley Comes to the Relief of Emin 61
IX The Meeting at the Lake 70
X The Mutiny 75
XI The Tragedy at Jambuja 80
XII Again in the Dark Forest 85
XIII Fresh Troubles 88
XIV The March to Zanzibar 92
XV Emin's Misfortune 96
XVI New Plans 99
XVII Ferida's Departure 101
XVIII Again in the Heart of Africa 104
XIX Again with the Soudanese 109
XX To the West 113
XXI Emin's Death 118
Appendix 125

Illustrations

Emin Pasha _Frontispiece_
A Serious Accident to Emin 41
First Meeting of Stanley with Emin Pasha 71
The Snow Mountain 94
Major Wissmann 105

Emin Pasha