Arthur J. M. Jephson

Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson (1859–1908) was a young adventurer and African explorer, who accompanied H.M.Stanley on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887-1889.

Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

Jephson's frank, sensitive and open-hearted diary from the expedition was published half a century after his death, and provides a valuable and disturbing record of the late Victorian African expeditions, of which this expedition was to be the last.

Henry M Stanley with the officers of the Advance Column, Cairo, 1890. From the left : Dr. Thomas Heazle Parke, Robert H. Nelson, Henry M. Stanley, William G. Stairs, and Arthur J. M. Jephson

References and further reading

Primary sources

Wikisource has original text related to this article: Scholars in 1888 discuss whether Stanley's disappearance during the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition means that he had died.

• Jephson, A. J. Mounteney : Diary, Edited by Dorothy Middleton, Hakluyt Society, 1969
• Stanley, Henry Morton : In Darkest Africa, 1890

Secondary works

• Daniel Liebowitz; Charles Pearson : The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo, 2005, ISBN 0-393-05903-0
• Moorehead, Alan : The White Nile, London, 1960, 1971
• Smith, Iain R. : The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1886-1890, Oxford University Press, 1972
• Gould, Tony : In Limbo: The Story of Stanley's Rear Column, David & Charles 1980 ISBN 0-241-10125-5
• A.J. Mounteney Jephson, Diary, Edited by Dorothy Middleton, Hakluyt Society 1969

Note: The name is also spelled "Mountenay"

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