A. Mounteney-Jephson: Emin Pasha And The Rebellion At The Equator. A Story Of Nine Months Experiences In The Last Of The Soudan Provinces -------------------- Sampson Low, Marston Searle & Rivington: London First edition. 23 x 15 cm. xxiv + 490 pp + 22 plates + map + facsimile letter. Very good - condition, pictorial cloth a little chipped and worn with some splitting on front hinge. Some mild foxing mainly to page edges, binding cracked between pages 144/5. All plates and map present. Happily Mr. Jephson's volume is free from any of the unhappy incidents and disputes which mark most of the other literature of the Emin Relief Expedition. It will be remembered that when Mr. Stanley returned to the forest a second time to seek for the rear column, Mr. Jephson was left to accompany Emin to Wadelai for the purpose of getting Emin's people to come away. The main details are well known; but Mr. Jephson is able to tell us much that enables us to understand the peculiar position of Emin, and his hesitation to abandon his province. It was evident that while many of his people continued loyal, mutiny was widespread, and that sooner or later the Mahdists would have overrun the province. Mr. Jephson adds much to our knowledge of the geography of the "Upper Nile, and especially of the condition of the various stations. He enables us to realise how much has been lost by the inevitable abandonment of the province, and how hopeful would be any serious effort to develope its resources. All the ground arotind the stations was in a state of nourishing cultivation, and with a firm hand over the unruly Egyptian soldiery, the natives arotind might have been weaned to civilisation. Mr. Jephson saw a good deal of the Baris, and gives a useful and interesting summary of what is known of this people from his own observations and those of others. There are several excellent illustrations and a useful map. (Proceeding of the Royal Geographical Society, Jan 1891)