CORONETED AVISIBBA WARRIOR--HEAD-DRESS 179 CASCADES OF THE NEPOKO 193 VIEW OF BAFAIDO CATARACT 202 ATTACKING AN ELEPHANT IN THE ITURI RIVER 203 RANDY SEIZES THE GUINEA FOWL 224 KILONGA LONGA'S STATION 234 SHIELDS OF THE BALESSÉ 256 VIEW OF MOUNT PISGAH FROM THE EASTWARD 281 VILLAGES OF THE BAKWURU ON A SPUR OF PISGAH 283 A VILLAGE AT THE BASE OF PISGAH 284 CHIEF OF THE IYUGU 285 PIPES OF FOREST TRIBES 290 SHIELDS OF BABUSESSÉ 299 SUSPENSION BRIDGE ACROSS THE EAST ITURI 304 SHIELD OF THE EDGE OF THE PLAINS 317 VIEW OF THE SOUTH END OF ALBERT NYANZA 318 CORN GRANARY OF THE BABUSESSÉ 328 A VILLAGE OF THE BAVIRI: EUROPEANS TAILORING 345 GREAT ROCK NEAR INDÉTONGA 348 EXTERIOR VIEW OF FORT BODO 349 INTERIOR VIEW OF FORT BODO 351 PLAN OF FORT BODO AND VICINITY, BY LIEUTENANT STAIRS 354 THE QUEEN OF THE DWARFS 368 WITHIN FORT BODO 371 ONE OF MAZAMBONI'S WARRIORS 384 KAVALLI, CHIEF OF THE BABIASSI 389 MILK VESSEL OF THE WAHUMA 392 THE STEAMERS "KHEDIVE" AND "NYANZA" ON LAKE ALBERT 426 VIEW OF BANALYA CURVE 493 PORTRAIT OF MAJOR BARTTELOT 499 " MR. JAMESON 501 _MAP_ A MAP OF THE GREAT FOREST REGION, SHOWING THE ROUTE OF THE EMIN PASHA RELIEF EXPEDITION FROM THE RIVER CONGO TO VICTORIA NYANZA. BY HENRY M. STANLEY. _In Pocket._ [Illustration: GROUP OF MR. STANLEY AND OFFICERS.] IN DARKEST AFRICA. PREFATORY LETTER My Dear Sir William, I have great pleasure in dedicating this book to you. It professes to be the Official Report to yourself and the Emin Relief Committee of what we have experienced and endured during our mission of Relief, which circumstances altered into that of Rescue. You may accept it as a truthful record of the journeyings of the Expedition which you and the Emin Relief Committee entrusted to my guidance.