ABSTRACT
Few records of African travel are as ghastly as that made by James Jameson, a member of Stanley's controversial expedition to relieve Emin Pasha. Grandson of John Jameson of Irish whiskey fame, James Sligo Jameson was born and received his early education in Scotland. In 1877 he travelled through Ceylon and Singapore to Borneo, returning with a collection of birds and insects. Late in 1878 he went to South Africa, big game hunting. Newspapers spent several weeks carrying stories about his alleged participation in the cannibal killing of a young African girl. The British public was shocked: questions of national honour were raised. Jameson's widow published her husband's letters and diaries in the belief that it would clear his name. Ethel Jameson published her husband's account with R. H. Porter but she had also approached Blackwoods.
