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THE DIARY OF A. J. MOUNTENEY JEPHSON

EMIN PASHA
RELIEF EXPEDITION
1887-1889

HAKLUYTSOCIETY
EXTRA SERIES NO. XL

HAKLUYT SOCIETY

PATRON
H.R.H. THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, K.G., P.C., K.T., K.P.
COUNCIL AND OFFICERS, 1968-69
PRESIDENT
Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.S.I.

VICE-PRESIDENTS
J. N. L. Baker. Sir Alan Burns, G.C-M.G.
Professor C. R. Boxer, F.B.A. Dr E. S. de Beer, F.B.A.
Professor D. B. Quinn

COUNCIL (WITH DATE OF ELECTION)

W. E. D. Allen, O.B.E. (1967)
Dr K. R. Andrews (1966)
Professor C. F. Beckingham (1964)
Dr J. S. Cummins (1967)
Sir Philip Hay, K.c.v.o., t.d. (1968)
Dr C. I. Jackson (1967)
Sir Harry Luke, K.C.M.G. (1967)
B. F. Macdona, C.B.E. (1967)
J. F. Maggs (1966)
Mrs Dorothy Middleton (1966)
Rear-Admiral G. S. Ritchie, D.s.c. (1965)
Royal Commonwealth Society (1966, D. H. Simpson)
Royal Geographical Society (G. R. Crone)
A. N. Ryan (1968)
Dr R. A. Skelton (1966)
Dr J. L. Stoye (1968)
Lieut.-Cdr D. W. Waters, R.N. (1965)

TRUSTEES
J. N. L. Baker
Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.S.I.
The Right Hon. the Lord Rennell of Rodd, K.B.E., C.B.

HONORARY TREASURER
J. N. L. Baker

HONORARY SECRETARIES
Miss E. M. J. Campbell, Birkbeck College, London, W.C.I
Dr T. E. Armstrong, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge

HON. SECRETARIES FOR OVERSEAS

Australia: G. D. Richardson, The Public Library of N.S.W., Macquarie Street, Sydney, N.S.W. 2000.
Canada: Professor J. B. BIRD, McGill University, Montreal.
India: Dr S. Gopal, Ministry of External Affairs, 3 Man Singh Road, New Delhi.
New Zealand: C. H. R. TAYLOR, Box 51052, Tawa.
South Africa: Professor ERIC AXELSON, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch.
U.S.A.: Dr W. M. WHITEHILL, Boston Athenaeum, 10 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108.

CLERK OF PUBLICATIONS AND ASSISTANT TREASURER
Mrs Alexa Barrow, Hakluyt Society, c/o British Museum, London, W.C.I

The Diary of A. J. Mounteney Jephson

Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 18871889

Edited by Dorothy Middleton
With Preface, Prologue and Epilogue
compiled by the Editor
in collaboration with
Maurice Denham Jephson

Published by
Routledge
for
The Hakluyt Society
London
2012

First published by Ashgate Publishing

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ISBN 13: 978-0-521-01021-4 (hbk)

The diary written by A. J. Mounteney Jephson between January 1887 and October 1889 contains as full a first-hand account as exists of the expedition led by H. M. Stanley to the relief of Emin Pasha, Governor of the Equatorial Province of Egypt, isolated in the southern Sudan from 1882 onwards by the rising and victory of the Mahdi. The disaster of the Rear Column is, indeed, only referred to incidentally, but the main course of the expedition and Jephson's own adventures on his special mission to the Equatorial garrisons is dealt with fully.

The complete diary, in two large and two small notebooks, runs to about 300,000 words, of which some 200,000 are printed here, with editorial narrative to bridge the omission of one or more entry, and dots to show cuts within one entry. Chapter headings have been introduced by the editor for greater clarity. The Prologue and Epilogue to the journal have been compiled in close collaboration with the late Brigadier Maurice Denham Jephson, C.B.E., the diarist's nephew, and incorporate details of family history from papers at Mallow Castle, County Cork.

Book 1 of the diary was begun when Jephson joined the expedition at Tilbury on 20 January 1887 and covers the voyage out to the Congo mouth by way of Zanzibar, and the journey up the Congo and across the Ituri forests to Lake Albert; it concludes with the meeting with Emin Pasha, the last entry being for 28 May 1888. The early part of this is abridged, but from Yambuya (28 June 1887) to the end is printed in full. Book 2 runs from 5 June to 31 December 1888 and tells the story of the mutiny of Emin's troops and the imprisonment of Emin and Jephson in the barracks at Dufil; this section, in view of the fact that it was published by the author as Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator (1890), has been drastically cut. Book 3, from 1 January to 20 April 1889, covers the reunion with Stanley and the departure for the east coast, and is also abridged. Book 4, from 29 April 1889, covers the journey back, and is given in full. The last dated entry is 2 August, after which the narrative is continuous and undated (except for one entry), and peters out some time in October.

Books 1 and 4 measure 13 by 8 inches, with white card covers; these were the books brought from home by the diarist. Books 2 and 3 were given him by Emin from his store: 2 is 10 by inches, with squared paper and a green cloth cover, and 3 is bound in black leather and is only 7 by inches. The writing, in ink, is legible and uniform. Original spelling and punctuation have been retained, except for the correction of 'thier' to 'their' throughout.

The diary was discovered in 1955 in a cupboard at Mallow Castle by Brigadier Jephson who, as already stated, helped substantially with the Prologue and Epilogue. Its existence had been unknown, and no directions have been found to indicate the author's wishes regarding it.

Though Mounteney Jephson's diary may be described as the fullest account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, it is by no means the only one. The official version is, of course, H. M. Stanley's In Darkest Africa , published in 1890. Events in which Stanley played no part are covered in Jephson's Emin Pasha and in the records of officers left with the Rear Column at Yambuya while the Advance Column, with Stanley, Jephson, Parke, Stairs and Nelson, pressed on to the lake. Herbert Ward and J. Rose Troup wrote books on their return to England, and E. M. Barttelot's and J. S. Jameson's letters and diaries were published posthumously, edited by their relatives. One other first-hand narrative, which deserves to be better known, is T. H. Parke's My personal experiences in Equatorial Africa as medical officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (1891); Parke, a humorist, wrote to Jephson: 'To me it reads simple magnificence and I get quite emotional over ita good sign?' It also made him 'laugh like the mischief'. He explains that he has not asked Stanley to write a foreword as it might look as if the account was 'one-sided', but he had invited Mrs Stanley to do some pictures.

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