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Mr. H. M. Stanley’s Emin Pasha Relief Expedition - foraging for supplies for the Yahbuya Camp, 1890. Creator: H. Werdmüller.

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Mr. H. M. Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition - foraging for supplies for the Yahbuya Camp, 1890. 'The Illustration of the expeditionary incidents...arises out of Tippoo Tib's disloyalty to Stanley. The obstruction of supplies cost the camp at Yambuya many men, some of whom literally died from starvation; and, but for an occasional requisitioning among the outlying villages, conducted, it is said, more than once by Mr. Jameson, the mortality would have been much more serious. Food was obtained in this way on sundry occasions: where the supplies could not be paid for on the spot, goats and poultry were carried off on credit. If Tippoo Tib had natives shot for providing the camp with food, Mr. Jameson's foraging expeditions were not conducted without some danger...No further justification is needed for these occasional foraging expeditions. The adventurous requisitioners found it more difficult to get their booty home than to capture it. Driving goats and chickens through narrow jungle paths, with gigantic reeds on either hand, into which the beasts and birds would insist upon escaping, demanded as much skill as patience. One need not be told with what satisfaction the supplies were received in camp by the starving garrison'. Joseph Hatton. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A51_145

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46,1Mo (8,2Mo) / 28,6cm x 40,4cm / 3374 x 4771 (300dpi)

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