Talk:Stairs Expedition to Katanga

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Well done Rexparry sydney, this is not far off Good article status. --Camptown 15:39, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Information and citations still needed
Thanks to editors for copy-editing and tidying up the article. Rexparry sydney 04:22, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Captain Stairs' diaries are a primary source which I couldn't locate, it would be good if someone could check them, primary sources for the article at present are the book by Moloney, excerpts from De Bonchamps' journal in the Pont-Jest article, and a letter from Stairs to Arnot, all included in the references. Stairs' diaries are in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia and were published in Hon. Roy MacLaren, African Exploits : The Diaries of William Stairs, 1887-1892, (1998) McGill-Queen's University Press (ISBN 0-7735-1640-9) & Liverpool University Press (ISBN 0-85323-722-0). In particular, did Stairs write anything about the decapitation of Msiri's corpse and the fate of the head?
 * An illustration of Msiri. The one on the Kingmsiri website is, I think, a modern painting (the clothing looks modern), but perhaps the missionaries or members of other expeditions made sketches which have been published.
 * What happened to Msiri's head? Was it taken back to Europe as some in Katanga think?