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Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson (1859–1908) was an English merchant seaman and army officer. He became an adventurer and
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explorer Exploration refers to the historical practice of discovering remote lands. It is studied by geographers and historians. Two major eras of exploration occurred in human history: one of convergence, and one of divergence. The first, covering most ...
, 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 Victorian African expeditions, of which this expedition was to be the last.


References and further reading


Primary sources

* Jephson, A. J. Mounteney : ''Diary'', Edited by Dorothy Middleton,
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, 1969 * Stanley, Henry Morton : '' In Darkest Africa'', 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'',
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1980 Note: The name is also spelled "Mountenay"


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1859 births 1908 deaths English explorers Explorers of Africa {{UK-explorer-stub