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 .. . tives. Andthen the end came. Probably in that last struggle for life not a soulescaped. If you ask me why no news, no rumor of that catastrophe leakedout, I answer because there was no trade, not even a slave route, throughthat region. There was no native or Arab merchant to carry the newsfrom tribe to tribe ; and as each tribe has little but fighting relations withthe neighboring ones, the
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 .. . tives. Andthen the end came. Probably in that last struggle for life not a soulescaped. If you ask me why no news, no rumor of that catastrophe leakedout, I answer because there was no trade, not even a slave route, throughthat region. There was no native or Arab merchant to carry the newsfrom tribe to tribe ; and as each tribe has little but fighting relations withthe neighboring ones, the tidings would not get through by their , after all, what would the massacre of a passing caravan be to thosesavages ? Only a common incident not worth speaking about beside thecontinual tribal wars they are accustomed to. The one thing they wouldfind to remark would be the wonderful character of the plunder. Someday, no doubt, the news will leak out, but it may be months before any-thing reaches us. It is not much use crying over spilt milk, but onecannot help lamenting over this probable new disaster. It is all so a par with our terrible blunderings in the Soudan and East (730) STANLEYS LAST GREAT EXPEDITION. 731 Only another remarkable man killed, and the magnificent lifes work ofanother ruined. But for the selection of the Congo route Stanley n^ighthave been alive, Emin succored, and not improbably the Mahdis hostdefeated. The foregoing opinion, expressed by a man of experience, who mightbe supposed to know what he was talking about, was very generallyapproved by those who had but a limited and superficial knowledge ofthe dangers which Stanley must have encountered. There was areadiness to believe that the worst had befallen him. It did not seempossible for one to plunge into the heart of Africa, cut off all communi-cation, be gone for a long period of time without having been heardfrom, and yet be in the land of the living. Except for the fact th
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