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fowls, goats, bananas, corn, sweet potatoes, yams, beans, etc. . . . 

 They were still 126 miles from the lake; but, given food, such a dis- 

 tance seemed nothing. . . . After 160 days' continuous gloom we 

 saw the light of broad day shining all around us, and making all things 

 beautiful. We thought we had never seen grass so green or country 

 so lovely. The men literally yelled and leaped with joy, and raced 

 over the ground with their burdens. Ah! this was the old spirit of 

 former expeditions, successfully completed, all of a sudden revived!" 



At I P. M., on the 13th of December, 1887, after a brief camp for 

 rest and refreshment, the expedition moved on its eastward march. 

 And now let Stanley tell his own tale. 



"Fifteen minutes later, I cried out, 'Prepare yourselves for a 

 sight of the Nyanza.' 



"The men murmured and doubted, and said: 



"Why does the master continually talk to us in this way? 

 Nyanza, indeed ! Is not this a plain, and can we not see mountains at 

 least four days' march ahead of us ?' 



"At 1.30 P. M. the Albert Nyanza was below them! 



"Now it was my turn to jeer and scoff at the doubters, but as 

 I was about to ask them what they saw, so many came to kiss my 

 hands and beg my pardon, that I could not say a word. This was my 

 reward." 



About six miles in front of them lay Kavalli, the objective point 

 of the expedition ; and beyond Kavalli, the blue expanse of the Albert 

 Nyanza. 



We must omit describing how Stanley met Eniin, and found that 

 during the years of his isolation he had defended himself and his 

 province against the Mahdists. His powers of holding out longer, 

 however, were fast passing away, yet when Stanley sought to induce 

 him to retire he found it difficult to obtain any definite answer. Emin 

 still hoped to be able to sustain himself against his enemies, and Stan- 

 ley could not convince him to the contrary. 



What the great traveler now did was to return by the long route 

 through the forest with the hope of reaching his rear guard under 

 Major Barttelot. He failed to find them until he had nearly reached 

 Yambaya, and did' so to learn that the major had been killed, and out 



