On my return from Africa in September 1888, my health being very much broken by what I had so recently gone through in the service of Mr. Stanley, I was much pained by reading most inaccurate accounts of what had taken place at Yambuya, and I was even more troubled to find the Emin Pasha Kelief Committee with my report in their possession failed to correct the false statements made in the press, though I wrote requesting them to do and my comrades this act of justice, because we were forbidden by our contracts to publish anything. Failing to obtain from them any satisfaction, I felt that to defend the honour of myself and comrades became my duty, dally when our action was condemned in a letter of Mr. Stanley spublished A pril 1889. I knew of the paragraph in the contract by which I had agreed not to publish anything for six months after the appearance of the official publication of our leader, but I believed this binding only on condition that he had fulfilled his of the contract, and this he had tailed to do, as her supplied me with the tent, bed, Winchester rifle, canteen, and a due share of European provisions. .M r.
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