Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . rs should covet and take it from them. There are many kinds of food which the climate affords to anyone ofordinary industry, such as horned cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, fowls, ducks,and pigeons, not to mention the plantain and other vegetable products,and with such stores of food at his command, it is surprising that theblack man should be so often driven to feed on wild herbs and roots,dogs
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . rs should covet and take it from them. There are many kinds of food which the climate affords to anyone ofordinary industry, such as horned cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, fowls, ducks,and pigeons, not to mention the plantain and other vegetable products,and with such stores of food at his command, it is surprising that theblack man should be so often driven to feed on wild herbs and roots,dogs, cats, rats, snakes, lizards, insects, and other similar animals, andshould be frequently found on the point of starvation^ and be compelledto sell his own children to procure food. Moreover, there are elephants,rhinoceroses, hippopotami, buffaloes, giraffes, antelopes, guinea-fovvls,and a host of other animals, which can be easily captured in traps orpitfalls, so that the native African lives in the midst of a country whichproduces food in boundless variety. The reasons for such a phenomenonare simple enough, and may be reduced to two,—namely, utter want offoresight and constitutional (394) STANLEYS GREAT JOURNEY FROM SEA TO SEA. 395 Mtesa took a deliberate view of Stanley, as if studying him, while thecompliment was reciprocated, since the latter was no less interested in theking. After the audience Stanley repaired to his hut and wrote the fol-lowing : As I had read Spekes book for the sake of its geographicalinformation, T retained but a dim remembrance of his description of hislife in Uganda. If I remember rightly, Spcke described a youthful prince,vain and heartless, a wholesale murderer and tyrant, one who delightedin fat women. Doubtless he described what he saw, but it is far frombeing the state of things now. Mtesa has impressed me as being anintelligent and distinguished prince, who, if aided in time by virtuousphilanthropists, will do more for Central
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