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 .. . omYambuya to Bunalya in sixteen days, despite native opposition. Therear column performed the same distance in forty-three days. Accord-ing to Mr. Bonny, during the thirteen months and twenty days that hadelapsed since I had left Yambuya, the record is only one of disaster^desertion, and death. I have not the heart to go into the details, manyof which are incredible, and, indeed, I have not
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 .. . omYambuya to Bunalya in sixteen days, despite native opposition. Therear column performed the same distance in forty-three days. Accord-ing to Mr. Bonny, during the thirteen months and twenty days that hadelapsed since I had left Yambuya, the record is only one of disaster^desertion, and death. I have not the heart to go into the details, manyof which are incredible, and, indeed, I have not the time, for, excepting-Mr. Bonny, I have no one to assist me in re-organizing the Reported Dead. There are still far more loads than I can carry, at the same time articlesneedful are missing. For instance, I left Yambuya with only a shortcampaigning kit, leaving my reserve of clothing and personal effects incharge of the officers. In December some deserters from the advancecolumn reached Yambuya to spread the report that I was dead. Theyhad no papers with them, but the officers seemed to accept the report ofthese deserters as a fact, and in January Mr. Ward, at an officers mess. (745) 746 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. meeting, proposed that my instructions should be canceled. The onlyone who appears to have dissented was Mr. Bonny. Accordingly, mypersonal kit, medicines, soap, candles, and provisions were sent down theCongo as superfluities! Thus, after making this immense personalsacrifice to relieve them and cheer them up, I find myself naked anddeprived of even the necessaries of life in Africa. But, strange to say,they have kept two hats and four pairs of boots, a flannel jacket, and Ipropose to go back to Emin Pasha and across Africa with this trulyAfrican kit. Livingstone, poor fellow, was all in patches when I methim, but it will be the reliever himself who will be in patches this , not one of my officers will envy me, for their kits are i
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