“‘Supposing you resolve to stay, what of the Egyptians?’ I asked.
“‘Oh! these I shall have to ask you to be good enough to take with you.’
“Now, will you, Pasha, do me the favor to ask Captain Casati if we are to have the pleasure of his company to the sea, for we have been instructed to assist him also should we meet?’
“Captain Casati answered through Emin Pasha:
“‘What the Governor Emin decides upon shall be the rule of conduct for me also. If the Governor stays, I stay. If the Governor goes, I go.’
“‘Well, I see, Pasha, that in the event of your staying your responsibilities will be great.’
“A laugh. The sentence was translated to Casati, and the gallant Captain replied:
“‘Oh! I beg pardon, but I absolve the Pasha from all responsibility connected with me, because I am governed by my own choice entirely.’
“Thus day after day I recorded faithfully the interviews I had with Emin Pasha; but these extracts reveal as much as is necessary for you to understand the position. I left Mr. Jephson thirteen of my Soudanese, and sent a message to be read to the troops, as the Pasha requested. Everything else is left until I return with the united expedition to the Nyanza.
