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===Emin Pasha Relief Expedition=== {{Main|Emin Pasha Relief Expedition}} Captain Stairs was appointed to the [[Emin Pasha Relief Expedition]] led by [[Henry Morton Stanley]], at the time the most celebrated living explorer of Africa. Stairs sailed from London on 20 January 1887 and met Stanley in [[Suez]] on 6 February. Their expedition started from [[Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo|Banana]] at the mouth of the [[Congo River]] on 19 March and ended in [[Bagamoyo]], Tanzania on 5 December 1889. Stairs was appointed second-in-command after [[Edmund Musgrave Barttelot|Captain Barttelot]] was shot on 19 July 1888. [[File:Advance Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1890.jpg|thumb|375px|Henry M Stanley with the officers of the Advance Column, Cairo, 1890. From the left : Dr. [[Thomas Heazle Parke]], [[Robert H. Nelson (explorer)|Robert H. Nelson]], [[Henry M. Stanley]], [[William G. Stairs]], and [[Arthur J. M. Jephson]]]] During the 5000 km journey across Africa through some of its most difficult country consisting of almost impenetrable [[rainforest]] and swamps, Stairs and colleagues suffered frequently from [[malaria]] and [[dysentery]]. Stairs had endurance, toughness and perseverance. He discovered one source of the [[Nile]], the [[Semliki River]], and became the first non-African to ever climb in the [[Rwenzori Mountains|Ruwenzoris]], reaching 10,677 ft before having to turn around. He was seriously wounded in the chest by a poisonous arrow during an attack by natives. Stairs recovered from his wound to continue the journey. In [[Dublin]], Ireland there is a bronze plaque depicting this 13 August 1887 event on the statue of expedition Surgeon Major [[Thomas Heazle Parke]] who removed the arrow and sucked the poison from the wound. The expedition was lauded in Europe and North America for exploits seen as heroic. On his return to England Captain Stairs was named a Fellow of the [[Royal Geographical Society]] and the [[Royal Scottish Geographical Society]] in 1890.<ref>Daniel Liebowitz; Charles Pearson: The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo, 2005, {{ISBN|0-393-05903-0}}</ref> He described the population as "unfortunate blacks who, very often, are incapable of managing their own affairs."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Engler |first=Yves |date=2017-06-28 |title=William Grant Stairs of Halifax helped conquer the Congo |url=https://rabble.ca/anti-racism/canadian-who-helped-conquer-congo/ |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=rabble.ca |language=en-US}}</ref>
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