The story of Africa and its explorers . SECTIONAL STEEL BOAT THE ADVANCE. {Ihultfor the Kmin Paslia Relief Expedition by Forrestt <£? Son.) 43 34 THE STORY OF AFRICA. the expedition. For live days in December,1887, the savages made a succession otattacks upon it, the echoes of which reachedKabba Rega in Unyoro. For it so happenedthat these Mazamboni warriors were his sub-jects ; and when the news of their defeatreached him, he imagined that his countrywas being invaded by a large army under awhite Pasha, summoned by his double-deahng friend Emin. He therefore imme-diately wreaked his vengea
The story of Africa and its explorers . SECTIONAL STEEL BOAT THE ADVANCE. {Ihultfor the Kmin Paslia Relief Expedition by Forrestt <£? Son.) 43 34 THE STORY OF AFRICA. the expedition. For live days in December,1887, the savages made a succession otattacks upon it, the echoes of which reachedKabba Rega in Unyoro. For it so happenedthat these Mazamboni warriors were his sub-jects ; and when the news of their defeatreached him, he imagined that his countrywas being invaded by a large army under awhite Pasha, summoned by his double-deahng friend Emin. He therefore imme-diately wreaked his vengeance on poor Casati,who was robbed and turned out of his housealmost naked, to wander along the shores ofLake Albert until Emin found and rescuedhim; while Mohammed Biri, Emins mes-senger, was killed by the incensed king (p. 28).The story of a white Pasha devastatingthe Upper Nile region even reached Cairo ina strangely distorted form, and on its way. AEROW-HEADS. AEROWS, AND QUIVER, FROM THEARUWHlMI DISTRICT. north so alarmed the Khalifa, who had noAvsucceeded the dead Mahdi, that he de-spatched troops to take possession of Equa-toria and destroy the supposed intruder. It was in this forest, and especially in theregion between the Ihuru and Ituri rivers,that the expedition for the first time metwith the pigmies. These dwarfs were, indeed. among the most persistent of Mr. Stanleysenemies, discharging their little poisonedarrows with great audacity. It is,however, a mistake to suppose that wambuttiMr. Stanley was, or claimed tobe, the discoverer of these dwarfs of theAfrican forest. We have seen that Spekeheard of them. We know that Paul duChaillu, in penetrating the forest behind theFrench possessions in West Africa, cameupon a similar race of mankind. It mayalso be recalled that among the people whomMr. Stanley had heard of in 1876, and Lieu-tenant Wissmann and Dr. Wolff met alongthe upper waters of the Congo, were theWatwa dwarfs
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