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 .. . water for a few smallfishes to the half-exhausted wordy combatants. To me it was an amus-ing scene. I could not understand the words that flowed off their glibtongues, but the gestures were too expressive to need interpretation. The village itself is ruled by two chiefs from neighboring districts^Sheikh Abed, who is represented as being a tall, thin old man. having awhite beard, rules the l
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 .. . water for a few smallfishes to the half-exhausted wordy combatants. To me it was an amus-ing scene. I could not understand the words that flowed off their glibtongues, but the gestures were too expressive to need interpretation. The village itself is ruled by two chiefs from neighboring districts^Sheikh Abed, who is represented as being a tall, thin old man. having awhite beard, rules the lower or southern section of the town, while MuiniDugumbi, an Arab trader, is chief over the upper or northern latter was the first to settle in the place, having done so in 1868,when he drove out the original inhabitants of the place, and establishedhis harem, which was composed of more than three hundred slave-women. Stanley remained here until the 5th of November, when, having been>joined byTipo-tipo with seven hundred men, he set out upon his journey. Stanley now carried the Lady Alice across the 350 miles whichintervened between Ujiji and Nyangwe, which is situated on the Lualaba. PERILOUS DESCENT OF THE RAPIDS. (409) 410 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. (of Livingstone), which Stanley as well as Cameron believed was a branchof the Congo. We shall now follow Stanley briefly in his discoveryalong that river, which he had determined to explore. On the 5th November he set out. He reinforced his following, andtook supplies for six months. He had with him 140 rifles and seventyspearmen and could defy the warlike tribes of which he had heard somuch, and he made up his mind to stick to the Lualaba fair or foul!For three weeks he pushed his way along the banks, meeting withtremendous difficulties, till all became disheartened. Stanley said hewould try the river. The Lady Alice was put together and launched,and then the leader declared he would never-quit it until he reached t
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