Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson (1859–1908) was an English merchant seaman and army officer. He became an adventurer and

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

n explorer, who accompanied H. M. Stanley on the

Emin Pasha Relief Expedition The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886 to 1889 was one of the last major European expeditions into the interior of Africa in the nineteenth century, ostensibly to the relief of Emin Pasha, General Charles Gordon's besieged governor of Equato ...

, 1887–1889.

Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

Jephson's diary from the expedition was published half a century after his death, and provides a record of the late

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African expeditions, of which this expedition was to be the last. Advance Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1890

References and further reading

Primary sources

* Jephson, A. J. Mounteney : ''Diary'', Edited by Dorothy Middleton,

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, 1969 * Stanley, Henry Morton : ''

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'', 1890

Secondary works

* Liebowitz, Daniel; Pearson, Charles : ''The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo'', 2005, * Moorehead, Alan : ''The White Nile'', London, 1960, 1971 * Smith, Iain R. : ''The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1886-1890'',

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, 1972 * Gould, Tony : ''In Limbo: The Story of Stanley's Rear Column'', David & Charles 1980 Note: The name is also spelled "Mountenay"

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