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Lot Essay
The pedometer is an instrument that gauges the approximate distance traveled on foot by registering the number of steps taken.
Stanley had returned to London from the Congo in August 1884. He wrote up the Congo expedition in 1885 (The Congo and the Founding of its Free State) and made addresses on the subject, attempting to raise funds for a railway along the lower Congo. After a lengthy illness he toured the continent in the spring of 1886, cruised the Scottish isles with Dorothy Tennant and left for a lecture tour of the United States in November 1886. Before he sailed, Mackinnon had suggested that he might lead another expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, the beleaguered governor of equatorial Sudan. On receiving a telegram from Mackinnon on 11 December 1886, Stanley interrupted his tour to return to Britain and departed for Zanzibar in January 1887.
Stanley had returned to London from the Congo in August 1884. He wrote up the Congo expedition in 1885 (The Congo and the Founding of its Free State) and made addresses on the subject, attempting to raise funds for a railway along the lower Congo. After a lengthy illness he toured the continent in the spring of 1886, cruised the Scottish isles with Dorothy Tennant and left for a lecture tour of the United States in November 1886. Before he sailed, Mackinnon had suggested that he might lead another expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, the beleaguered governor of equatorial Sudan. On receiving a telegram from Mackinnon on 11 December 1886, Stanley interrupted his tour to return to Britain and departed for Zanzibar in January 1887.