Chapter I: Front Matter

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EMIN BEY]

STANLEY’S STORY

Or

Through the Wilds of Africa

A Thrilling Narrative

Of His Remarkable Adventures, Terrible Experiences, Wonderful Discoveries and Amazing Achievements in The Dark Continent.

Giving Accounts of his Discovery of Dr. Livingstone, the Lost Explorer; his Great Overland Journey Across the Dark Continent; the Great Mysteries of the past five thousand years, as solved by him; his Exploration of the Congo; the Founding of the Congo Free State, and the Opening of Equatorial Africa to Commerce, Civilization and Christianity; his Expedition to the Relief of Emin Bey in the Egyptian Soudan, with its Terrible Experiences of Starvation, Misery and Death; and a Resume of all his Wonderful Discoveries and their Great Value to Geographical and Scientific Knowledge, to the present time, and covering his entire career in Southern and Central Africa.

From Information, Data, and the Official Reports of Henry M. Stanley.

By our Special Foreign Correspondent,

COL. A. G. FEATHER.

Richly and Profusely Embellished with Many Full-Page Plain and Colored Illustrations.

Philadelphia: John E. Potter & Company, 1111 and 1113 Market Street.

Copyright by John E. Potter & Company, 1890. All Rights Reserved.

CAUTION.

The Engravings in this book, as well as the printed matter, being
fully protected by copyright, we desire to caution all persons against
copying or reproducing in any form. Any one so offending will be
prosecuted.

DEDICATION.

TO THE

BRAVE AND FAITHFUL FOLLOWERS

THROUGH WHOSE

FIDELITY AND UNSELFISH DEVOTION TO DUTY, UNFALTERING COURAGE
AND PATIENT SUFFERING UNDER SEVERE TRIALS, HE WAS
ENABLED TO SUCCESSFULLY ACCOMPLISH
HIS GREAT MISSION,

AS ALSO

To those Public Spirited Citizens

WHO THROUGH THEIR GENEROUS LIBERALITY SO ABLY AND
CHEERFULLY SUPPORTED

The Emin Bey Relief Expedition,

THIS VOLUME IS MOST CORDIALLY

DEDICATED.