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 .. . t Mohammed was contemplating ajourney west, which would take him to the great Lualaba. The wayseems opening before me, he exclaims, and I am thankful. Beforearrangements for accompanying Mohammed could be made, however,came rumors of war on the other side of the Lualaba. Syde bin Omar,an Arab trader from Iramba, the country on its western shores betweenLake Bangweolo and the Rua district, d
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 .. . t Mohammed was contemplating ajourney west, which would take him to the great Lualaba. The wayseems opening before me, he exclaims, and I am thankful. Beforearrangements for accompanying Mohammed could be made, however,came rumors of war on the other side of the Lualaba. Syde bin Omar,an Arab trader from Iramba, the country on its western shores betweenLake Bangweolo and the Rua district, declared it would be madness toattempt any explorations in that direction. Mohammed therefore readily gave up his scheme for the present, andunited with Omar in objecting strongly to Livingstones going with hissmall party even down the right bank of the Lualaba, though it was insight. Our hero resolved then to wait until all were ready to go, littledreaming that the delay would last until the beginning of October, that TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS AND NARROW ESCAPES. 253 the country would be convulsed with war, and that when he did leaveChikumbi it would be to flee to the north for his life. First came a raid. from devastating hordes of Mazitu, who were repulsed by the unitedforces of the Arab traders and the native chiefs; then a quarrel betweenthe successful allies, resulting in an attack, headed by Casembe and 254 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. Chikumbi, on the Arabs, beginning with the Kombokombo mentionedabove. , Confusion now prevailed everywhere. The daily entries in Living-stones journals became impossible, but on the 5th of October he writeshow he and his little band of servants were on one occasion surroundedby a party of fifteen or twenty natives, who attacked them with spearsand poisoned arrows ; how one good soul helped them away—a bless-ing be on him and his; how he narrowly escaped from the hands ofanother chief, who took him and his men for Mazitu; and how, lastly, hejoined fo
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