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CHAPTER XVI. THE RELIEF OF THE REAR-GUARD. Major Barttelot—The situation at the Yambuya camp—Arrival of Tippoo Tib’s porters—Banalya—Assassination of Major Barttelot— Death of Mr. Jameson—Arrival of Stanley at Banalya—Stanley’s letter to Tippoo Tib—On the march again—Famine—A starvation camp—At Fort Bodo—Arrival at the lake—Disastrous tidings. Major Edmund Barttelot, to whom Stanley had entrusted the command of his rear-caravan, was a young officer, who, in the expedition to the Soudan under Lord Wolseley, was in charge of a camel- corps of 1000 Somalis from Aden to Abu-Klea. Throughout the campaign the major distinguished himself by energy and courage. But in order to succeed in an unknown land like the Congo, and in an undertaking so excep tionally difficult as the conduct of the relief ex pedition, something more than military ardour was requisite. It is necessary to have foresight and patience, and beyond all it is indispensable to have tact and forbearance in dealing with the