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 .. . e rings are madeof bamboo, but others are of ivory or metal. When the wearer tries tosmile, the contraction of the muscles turns the ring upwards, so that itsupper edge comes in front of the eyes, the nose appearing through themiddle, while the whole front teeth are exposed by the motion, exhibitingthe way in which they have been clipped to resemble the fangs of a cator a crocodile. On thei
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 .. . e rings are madeof bamboo, but others are of ivory or metal. When the wearer tries tosmile, the contraction of the muscles turns the ring upwards, so that itsupper edge comes in front of the eyes, the nose appearing through themiddle, while the whole front teeth are exposed by the motion, exhibitingthe way in which they have been clipped to resemble the fangs of a cator a crocodile. On their next halt Seole, the chief of the village, instead of receivingthem in a friendly way, summoned his followers and prepared for an attack!*The reason was soon discovered. It appeared that an Italian, who hadmarried the chiefs daughter, having armed a party of fifty slaves withguns, had ascended the river in a canoe from Tete, and attacked severalinhabited islands beyond Makaba, taking large numbers of prisoners andmuch ivory. As he descended again with his booty, his party was dis-persed and he himself was killed while attempting to escape on imagined that the doctor was another (10) (145) J 146 WONDERS OF THE Had not the chief with whom they had previously stayed arrived toexplain matters, Seole might have given them much trouble. Mburuma, another chief of the same tribe, had laid a plan to plunderthe party by separating them, but the doctor, suspecting treachery, kepthis people together. They had on a previous occasion plundered a partyof traders bringing English goods from of An Old Town. On the 14th of January they reached the confluence of the Loangwaand the Zambesi. Here the doctor discovered the ruins of a town, withremains of a church in its midst. The situation was well chosen, withlofty hills in the rear and a view of the two rivers in front. On one sideof the church lay a broken bell, with the letters I. H. S. and a cr
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