FINDS THAT BAKER HAS MADE AN ERROR -- ALTITUDES OF LAKE ALBERT AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS -- VACOVIA -- DISCOVERS THE LOFTY RUEVENZORI -- THE NILE OR THE CONGO? -- THE SEMLIKI RIVER -- THE PLAINS OF NOONGORA -- THE SALT LAKES OF KATIVE -- NEW PEOPLES, WAKONYU OF THE GREAT MOUNTAINS -- THE AWAMBA -- WASONYORA -- WANYORA BANDITS -- LAKE ALBERT EDWARD -- THE TRIBES AND SHEPHERD RACES OF THE EASTERN UPLANDS -- WANYANKORI -- WANYARUWAMBA -- WAZINYA -- A HARVEST OF NEW FACTS -- THE IMPORTANCE OF STANLEY’S ADDITION TO THE VICTORIA NYANZA 501 CHAPTER XXIX. FROM THE ALBERT NYANZA TO THE INDIAN OCEAN. EMIN PASHA’S INDECISION -- MUCH TIME WASTED -- STANLEY GROWS IMPATIENT -- JEPHSON’S REPORT -- STANLEY DEMANDS POSITIVE ACTION, AND THREATENS TO MARCH HOMEWARD ON FEBRUARY 13TH -- RECEIVES EMIN’S REPLY, ACCEPTING THE ESCORT, ON THE DAY HE HAD PROPOSED TO BEGIN HIS RETURN MARCH -- STANLEY FURNISHES CARRIERS TO HELP HIM UP WITH HIS LUGGAGE -- STANLEY GREATLY HINDERED BY THE SUSPICIONS OF THE NATIVES -- CONVALESCENT FROM HIS RECENT SEVERE ILLNESS, STANLEY LEAVES KAVALLIS WITH HIS UNITED EXPEDITION, FOR THE INDIAN OCEAN, APRIL 12TH -- LETTER OF LIEUT. W. G. STAIRS -- REACHES URSULALA -- STANLEY’S LETTER TO SIR FRANCIS DE WINSTON -- EXPEDITIONS FITTED OUT AND FORWARDED TO THE INTERIOR TO MEET STANLEY -- STANLEY REACHES MSUWAH NOVEMBER 29TH -- MEETS THE “HERALD” COMMISSIONER -- REACHES MBIKI DECEMBER 1ST -- KIGIRO, DECEMBER 3D -- BAGAMOYO, DECEMBER 4TH -- ENTERS ZANZIBAR, DECEMBER 5TH -- SAD ACCIDENT BEFALLS EMIN PASHA -- SERIOUSLY, IF NOT FATALLY, INJURED -- THE END OF A MOST REMARKABLE AND EXTRAORDINARY EXPEDITION -- THE CLOSING WORDS OF STANLEY’S STORY 508 [Illustration] [Illustration] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE 0. A Frontispiece--Stanley and Emin Bey op. title 27. A Camp of Arab Traders „ 68 26. A Dance by Torchlight „ 66 70. Attacked by a Hippopotamus „ 252 47. A Fierce Battle with the Natives „ 132 53. A Floating Alligator „ 150 37. African Musician „ 94 31. An African Sun-Dance „ 76 57. Amazon Warriors „ 172 52. An Unexpected Surprise „ 144 67. An African Gazelle „ 236 49. A Fine Covey of the Noble Game „ 138 93. A Ghastly Monument „ 358 16. An Object of Intense Interest „ 36 117. A South African „ 456