WAITING FOR STANLEY. 32S entrenched themselves, awaiting the arrival of their reinforcements. This engagement, although it gave encourage ment to the • Egyptians, does not seem to have much improved the position of Emin, who retired to Tunguru, a station on a small island not far from the west shore of the Nyanza; whence on the 18th of December Mr. Jephson wrote again to Stanley: “ The Pasha is unable to move hand or foot, as there is still a very strong party against him, and the officers are no longer in immediate fear of the Mahdists. “ Make your camp^ at Kavalli, send a letter directly you arrive there, and I will come to you. “ I trust you will arrive before the Mahdists are reinforced, or our case will be desperate.” But at the time when this urgent letter was being written Stanley was far off. He had not yet arrived at Fort Bodo, which he did not reach until December 20th. It will at once be under stood that his anxiety was only too well founded, and that he had not been wrong in attributing the long silence of Emin and Jephson to something untoward.