xvlil INTRODUCTION.

I appreciate to the full the noble, self-denying efforts he has made, and I realise the difficulties of his present condition. I

therefore conclude with the wish that the readers of Emin

Pasha’s letters may learn to know and appreciate him as I have done, and may share my hope that he will be enabled to

carry on the work, which he has for so many years, and under

such great difficulties, successfully accomplished. In every

sense he is Gordon’s heir, and I trust to my fellow-country- men haying public spirit enough to support him in his work

of civilisation, and to prevent the relapse of the Equatorial

Province into the hunting-ground of the slave-dealers, or its

conversion into a mere field for commercial exploitation.

ROBERT W. FELKIN.

20 ALVA STREET, EDINBURGH,

February 14, 1888.