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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-countrymen 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.