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 .. . friendly tribes who informed him the river, theLualaba, which he had named the Livingstone, was surely the Congo, orthe River of Congo. Here was a great geographical secret now dis-closed, and success seemed certain. It was attained, but at a great price,as we shall see. More battles followed the peaceful days; then thefriendly tribes were again met with, and so on, until the warfare withma
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 .. . friendly tribes who informed him the river, theLualaba, which he had named the Livingstone, was surely the Congo, orthe River of Congo. Here was a great geographical secret now dis-closed, and success seemed certain. It was attained, but at a great price,as we shall see. More battles followed the peaceful days; then thefriendly tribes were again met with, and so on, until the warfare withman ceased, and the struggle with the Congo began in earnest. There are fifty-seven cataracts and rapids in the course of the riverfiom Nyangwe to the ocean, a distance of eighteen hundred miles. Oneportion of one hundred and eighty miles took the explorers five high cliffs and the dangerous banks required the greatest caution topass, and had Stanley not determined to cling to the river; had he ledhis men by land past the cataract region, he would have done better, asthe events prove. During that terrible passage he lost precious lives,including the brave Pocock and Kalulu—the black (412) STANLEYS PERILS IN CROSSING AFRICA. 413 March 12th found them in a wide reach of the river, named StanleyPool, and below that they for the first time heard the low and sullenthunder of the Livingstone Falls. From this date the river was thechief enemy, and at the cataracts the stream flows at the rate of thirtymiles an hour! The canoes suffered or were lost in the cauldron,and portages became necessary. The men were hurt also; even Stanleyhad a fall, and was half stunned. There were sundry workers, andseventeen canoes remaining on 27th of March. The descent was madealong shore below Rocky Island Falls, and in gaining the camping-placeKalulu, in the Crocodile canoe, was lost. This boat got into mid-stream, and went gliding over the smooth, swift river to cou
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