. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... melon, rich-flavored bananas, and plantains, andgreat pots full of wine. The fowls, unaware of the presenceof a hungry mob, were knocked down, plucked and roastedor boiled; the goats meditatively browsing or chewing thecud, were suddenly seized and decapitated, and the gratefularoma of roast meat gratified our senses. An abundance, aprodigal abundance, of good things, had awaited our erup-tion into the grass-land. Every village w^as well-stocked withprovi
. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... melon, rich-flavored bananas, and plantains, andgreat pots full of wine. The fowls, unaware of the presenceof a hungry mob, were knocked down, plucked and roastedor boiled; the goats meditatively browsing or chewing thecud, were suddenly seized and decapitated, and the gratefularoma of roast meat gratified our senses. An abundance, aprodigal abundance, of good things, had awaited our erup-tion into the grass-land. Every village w^as well-stocked withprovisions, and even luxuries long denied to us. Under suchfare the men became more robust, diseases healed as if by mag-ic, and there was not a goee-goee or chicken-heart left. On the 9th w^e came to the country of the powerful chiefMazamboni. The villages were scattered over a great extent ofcountry so thickly that there was no other road except throughtheir villages or fields. From a long distance the natives hadsighted us, and were prepared. We seized a hill as soon as w^ehad arrived in the center of a mass of villages—about 4 P. STANLEY LEADS THE EMIN PASHA RELIEF EXPEDITION. 737 on the 9th of December, and occupied it, building a zariba asfast as billhooks could cut brushwood. The war-cries wereterrible; from hill to hill they were sent pealing across theintervening valleys, the people gathered by hundreds fromevery point, war-horns and drums announced that a strugglewas about to take place. Such natives as were too bold wechecked with but little effort, and a slight skirmish ended inour capturing a cow, the first beef tasted since we left theocean. The night passed peacefully, both sides preparingfor the morrow. On the morning of the 10th we attemptedto open negotiations. The natives were anxious to know whowe were, and we were anxious to glean news of the land thatthreatened to ruin the expedition. Hours were passed talking,both parties keeping a respectable distance a
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