Junker, Wilhelm, German-Russian. African explorers, travelled several times large parts of the northern half of Africa as well as Zanzibar (1840-1892). Eigh. Letter from Dr. Junker. 4 pp., closely described. Double leaf with grieving edge. 8vo. Vienna 5.I.1889. To a Herrn Doctor. Detailed discussion of the news on the current expedition of British Africa activist Henry Morton Stanley. "... Whether Stanley has really returned to the Congo, any cure escapes, but I hold to my view that Stanley or at least others of his European companions, who may have led the expedition later, live i.e. that the Stanley expedition is not worn out. In relation to the message ... the capture of Emin's [i.e. Emin Pasha] etc. I would like to believe these statements only partially. The last words in the letter of the representative of the Mahdi in Ladò: 'Send me the captured officers right back here because I need them', let me assume that the northern stations, perhaps until Dufilé, have fallen into the hands of the rebels ... I don't believe in the capture of Emin's. He won't have left Wadelay for a war campaign against the rebels... Of 'whites who might be captured, I call: Marco, a Greek trader who resided in the province and Vita Hassan, a Maltese Jew, Pharmaceut at Emin; Dalbene is out of the question (called in the newspapers in the last days), he left the province years ago and returned to Chartum ..." - Larger wrinkles. - Rare.