. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . no-a-Lonffa on the 19th. o o Stairs party at muster consisted of— The garrison numbered— 88 men. 60 chiefs. 3 cooks. 1 officer. 4 boys. 1 boy. 3 whites. 1 cook. — 1 Manyema. 70 98 After the departure of Stairs, I commenced the con-struction of a corn-bin to store 300 bushels of Indiancorn, and to plaster the interior of busied himself in levelling floor of officers VOL I. X 354 IN DARKEST AFRICA. «n. 18. Fort Bodo. house. Men carried clay, others rammed and tampedSome men
. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . no-a-Lonffa on the 19th. o o Stairs party at muster consisted of— The garrison numbered— 88 men. 60 chiefs. 3 cooks. 1 officer. 4 boys. 1 boy. 3 whites. 1 cook. — 1 Manyema. 70 98 After the departure of Stairs, I commenced the con-struction of a corn-bin to store 300 bushels of Indiancorn, and to plaster the interior of busied himself in levelling floor of officers VOL I. X 354 IN DARKEST AFRICA. «n. 18. Fort Bodo. house. Men carried clay, others rammed and tampedSome men were on the roofs arranging the large-leavedphrynia one above the other on a kind of trestle frame,others formed ladders, made clay-dough for the walls,doors and windows for the houses, built kitchens,excavated latrines, or dug the ditch—ten feet wide, sixfeet deep—through a hard yellow clay, that lay under thetwenty-four inches of humus and loam of the the houses were completed, we made a whitewashout of wood ashes, which gave them a clean and neatappearance. PLAN OF FORT BODO AND VICINITY. By Lieut. Stairs, On the 28th, head-quarters was ready for had cleared three acres of land, cut down the bushclean to the distance of 200 j^ards from the fort, choppedthe logs—the lighter were carried away, the heavier werepiled up—and fire applied to them, and the next dayfolded the tents and removed to our mansions, which, asJephson declared, were remarkably snug. There wasat first a feeling of dampness, but a charcoal fire burningnight and day soon baked the walls dry. Fort Bodo CONSTRUCTION OF nEADQUARTERS. 355 To February 6 we extended the clearing, but dis- issacovering that natives were prowling about the fort, ?^*°- ^®-planting poisoned splinters in the paths, cutting downthe bananas, and bent on general mischief, half of thegarrison were divided into two parties of patrols, toscour the plantations and the adjoining forest. On thisda
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