. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... nley had some hopes of concil-iating this tribe by means of gifts, as they were somewhat ac-customed to the visits of the traders; for the travelers were nowindeed approaching the portion of the river which was knownto the merchants. Let us see how these efforts to makefriends succeeded: *We had left Observation Island about half a mile behindus when the prows of many canoes were seen to emerge out ofthe creek. I stood up and edged toward them, holding a
. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... nley had some hopes of concil-iating this tribe by means of gifts, as they were somewhat ac-customed to the visits of the traders; for the travelers were nowindeed approaching the portion of the river which was knownto the merchants. Let us see how these efforts to makefriends succeeded: *We had left Observation Island about half a mile behindus when the prows of many canoes were seen to emerge out ofthe creek. I stood up and edged toward them, holding a longpiece of red cloth in one hand and a coil of brass wire in an-other. We rested on our oars, and the men quietly placedtheir paddles in the canoe, and sat up, watchful, and readyfor contingencies. As we floated down, numbers of canoesadvanced. I hailed the natives, who were the most brilliantly decorat-ed of any that I had seen. * * * The natives returned noanswer to my hail; still I persisted. I observed three or fourcanoes approaching Franks vessel with a most suspicious airabout them, and several of their canoes menacing him, at. CROSSES THE DARK CONTINENT. DiO which Frank stood up and menaced them with his weapon. Ithought the act premature, and ordered him to sit down andlook away from them. I again raised the crimson cloth andwire, and by pantomime offered to give it to those in front,whom I was previously addressing; but almost immediatelythose natives who had threatened Frank fired into my boat,wounding three of my young crew, and two more natives firedinto Franks canoe, wounding two. The missiles fired into uswere jagged pieces of iron and copper precisely similar to thosewhich the Ashantees employed. After this murderous out-rage there was no effort made to secure peace. The shieldswere lifted, and proved capital defenses against the hail ofslugs. Boats, shields and canoes were pitted, but only a fewshields were perforated. The conflict began in earnest, a
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