. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. on our paddles. Butfrom both banks at once, in fierce concert, the natives, withtheir heads gaily feathered, and armed with broad blackwooden shields and long spears, dashed out towards us. Tippu-Tib l)efore our departure had hired to me twoyoung men of Ukusu—cannibals—as interpreters. Thesewere now instructed to cry out the word Sennenneh! ( Peace ! ), and to say that we were friends. 156 THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT. [1876. But tliey would
. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. on our paddles. Butfrom both banks at once, in fierce concert, the natives, withtheir heads gaily feathered, and armed with broad blackwooden shields and long spears, dashed out towards us. Tippu-Tib l)efore our departure had hired to me twoyoung men of Ukusu—cannibals—as interpreters. Thesewere now instructed to cry out the word Sennenneh! ( Peace ! ), and to say that we were friends. 156 THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT. [1876. But tliey would not reply to our greeting, and in a holdperemptory manner told us to return. But we are doing no harm, friends. It is the riverthat takes us down, and the river will not stop, or go back. This is our river. Good. Tell it to take us back, and we will go. If you do not go back, we will fight you. No, dont; we are friends. We dont want you for our friends ; we will eat you. But we persisted in talking to them, and as their curiositywas so great they persisted in listening, and the consequencewas that the current conveyed us near to the right bank ;.
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