Did he puff his crimes to please a bloodthirsty readership?
Bernard Porter: How bad was Stanley?, 5 April 2007
“... and left half his party stranded along the way under the command of two British officers – Major Edmund Barttelot and James Sligo Jameson (of the Irish whiskey family) – whom he knew to be rotters, and who were found later to have inflicted appalling atrocities on the Africans in their care (a young girl was apparently sold to cannibals so that Jameson ... ”