. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... n; but never had people so grossly deceived them-selves as we had. The loads were simply endless, and thesight of the rubbish which the refugees brought with them,and which was to be carried up that plateau slope, up to analtitude of two thousand eight hundred feet above the Nyan-za, made our people groan aloud—such things as grinding-stones, ten-gallon copper cooking-pots, some two hundredbedsteads, preposterously big baskets, like Falstaffs buck-basket
. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... n; but never had people so grossly deceived them-selves as we had. The loads were simply endless, and thesight of the rubbish which the refugees brought with them,and which was to be carried up that plateau slope, up to analtitude of two thousand eight hundred feet above the Nyan-za, made our people groan aloud—such things as grinding-stones, ten-gallon copper cooking-pots, some two hundredbedsteads, preposterously big baskets, like Falstaffs buck-basket ; old Saratoga trunks, fit for rich American mammas; oldsea-chests, great clumsy-looking boxes, little cattle-troughs,large twelve-gallon pombe jars, parrots, pigeons, etc. Thesethings were pure rubbish—for all w^ould have to be discardedat the signal»to march. Eight hundred and fifty-three loads ofthese goods were, however, brought up with the assistance ofthe natives, subject as they were to be beaten and maltreatedby the vile-tempered Egyptians, each time the natives wentdown to the Nyanza. But the Zanzibaris now began to show. STANLEY RESCUES EMIN PASHA. 787 an ugly temper also. They knew just enough Arabic to beaware that the obedience, tractability, and ready services theyexhibited were translated by the Egyptians into cowardice andslavishness, and after these hundreds of loads had been con-veyed they refused point-blank to carry any more, and theyexplained their reasons so well that we warmly sympathizedwith them at heart; but here, by this refusal, they came incontact with discipline, and strong measures had to be resort-ed to, to coerce them to continue the work until the order to cease was given. On the 31st of March we were all heartilytired of it, and we abandoned the interminable task. Thirteenhundred and fift^^-five loads had been transported to the plat-eau from the Lake Camp. Thirty days after Selim Beys departure for Wadelai asteamer appeared before the Ny
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