Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson (1859–1908) was an English merchant seaman and army officer. He became an adventurer and African explorer, who accompanied H. M. Stanley on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887–1889.
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Emin Pasha Relief Expedition
Jephson's diary from the expedition was published half a century after his death, and provides a record of the late Victorian African expeditions, of which this expedition was to be the last.
References and further reading
Primary sources
Jephson, A. J. Mounteney : Diary, Edited by Dorothy Middleton, Hakluyt Society, 1969
Stanley, Henry Morton : In Darkest Africa, 1890
Secondary works
Liebowitz, Daniel; Pearson, Charles : The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo, 2005, ISBN 0-393-05903-0
Moorehead, Alan : The White Nile, London, 1960, 1971
Smith, Iain R. : The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1886-1890, Oxford University Press, 1972
Gould, Tony : In Limbo: The Story of Stanley's Rear Column, David & Charles 1980 ISBN 0-241-10125-5
Note: The name is also spelled "Mountenay"