CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE
I. CONQUEST OF THE SOUDAN 1
II. REVOLT OF THE MAHDI—GORDON PASHA—SIEGE OF KHARTOUM AND RELIEF EXPEDITION UNDER LORD WOLSELEY 23
III. THE EQUATORIAL PROVINCES—LUPTON BEY AND EMIN BEY 45
IV. DR. JUNKER AND CASATI—THE NIAM-NIAM—THE MONBUTTU 66
V. PRISONERS IN THE SOUDAN 84
VI. RETURN OF DR. JUNKER 103
VII. THE RELIEF EXPEDITION—TIPPOO TIB 123
VIII. ON THE LOWER CONGO 146
IX. THE DISTRICT OF THE FALLS 162
X. STANLEY POOL 188
XI. ON THE UPPER CONGO 211
XII. THE CAMP AT YAMBUYA 224
XIII. FIFTEEN MONTHS OF UNCERTAINTY: IS HE KILLED, UNABLE TO LEAVE, OR A PRISONER?—THE WHITE PASHA 231
XIV. THROUGH AN UNKNOWN COUNTRY—FROM THE CAMP AT YAMBUYA TO LAKE ALBERT 250
XV. MEETING OF STANLEY AND EMIN BEY ON LAKE ALBERT 273
XVI. TO THE ASSISTANCE OF THE REAR-GUARD—MURDER OF MAJOR BARTTELOT—STARVING IN THE FOREST 292
XVII. REVOLT OF THE EGYPTIAN TROOPS—EMIN PASHA AND JEPHSON PRISONERS—MAHDIST INVASION 313
XVIII. ANOTHER MEETING OF EMIN BEY AND STANLEY—THE SOUDAN ABANDONED 326
XIX. RETREAT OF THE FIFTEEN HUNDRED—THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON AND THE SOURCES OF THE NILE 347
XX. THE RETURN TO ZANZIBAR—THALASSA!—THALASSA! 360