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Excerpt from Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator: A Story of Nine Months Experience in the Last of the Soudan Provinces
Enough is now known of Emin Pasha for people to readily understand that he was not the man all Europe supposed him to be or a second Gordon, as some of his admirers termed him.
Proud of his Province, and trusting in the loyalty of his people, he asked Mr. Stanley to leave one of his officers to help him in preparing his people to start for the coast if they wished to do so, and to make a report upon the Province.
Mr. Stanley nominated me, and left me with Emin on his return to Yambuya, to bring up the rear column.
I had not been in the Province long, before I began to see things which surprised me greatly, and which I could not but deplore. Discipline, as I understood discipline, was not enforced, for Emin's orders were openly discussed and questioned by his people.
So firmly, however, was the idea fixed in my mind that Emin was all we supposed him to be, that for a time I only saw with a passing feeling of wonder certain things which then I could not under stand.
I knew that Emin had held his province for many years, for which he had gained the admiration of Europe. I had read his letters to England, in which he described the heroic stand his people made against the encroachments of the Mahdi. I had also read his appeals to the people of England to be true to their philanthropic and humanitarian traditions, and I knew how the English people had risen as one man to answer those pathetic appeals.
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