Picture No | 10217685 |
Date | 1888 |
Description | Tippoo Tib's Grand Canoes on the Congo River 1888 |
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Tippoo Tib's grand canoes travelling down the Congo River during Sir Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1888. Emin Pasha (1840-1892), the German doctor, explorer, linguist and Governor of the Egyptian Equatorial Province had retreated to Wadelai, near Lake Albert, with 10,000 followers during the Mahdi Rising. Cut off from all communication Emin Pasha was considered lost, so the British government sent out a rescue party led by H.M. Stanley (1841-1904). Stanley enlisted the aid of the Tibboo Tib, an Arab-African warrior, adventurer and slaver, as he was one of the most powerful men in the Congo region at that time.
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Source | Illustrated London News, 21 December 1889, page 796-797 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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