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 .. . us, and are excellent handi-craftmen. They manufacture wooden bowls with neat lids, and showmuch taste in carving stools. Some make neat baskets, and others excel inpottery and iron. On their arrival at the town of the father of Mpepe,who had instigated his son to rebellion, two of his chief councilors wereled forth and tossed into the river. Naliele, the capital of the Barotse, the tribe i
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 .. . us, and are excellent handi-craftmen. They manufacture wooden bowls with neat lids, and showmuch taste in carving stools. Some make neat baskets, and others excel inpottery and iron. On their arrival at the town of the father of Mpepe,who had instigated his son to rebellion, two of his chief councilors wereled forth and tossed into the river. Naliele, the capital of the Barotse, the tribe inhabiting the district inwhich they now were, is built on an artificially-constructed mound, as aremany other villages of that region, to raise them above the overflowingriver. From finding no trace of European names amongthem, Livingstonewas convinced that the country had not before been visited by white men;whereas, after he had come among them, great numbers of children werenamed after his own boy, while others were called Horse, Gun, Wagon, etc. Koaring Liions. Here again numbers of large game were seen. Eighty-one buffaloesdefiled in slow procession before the fire of the travellers one evening. (113) 114 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. within gunshot, and herds of splendid elans stood at two hundred yardsdistance, without showing signs of fear. Lions, too, approached androared at them. One. night, as they were sleeping on the summit of alarge sandbank, a lion appeared on the opposite shore, who amused him-self for hours by roaring as loudly as he could. The river was too broadfor a ball to reach him, and he walked off without suffering for his imper-tinence. Livingstone saw two as tall as common donkeys, their manesmaking their bodies appear of still greater size. Lions are in the habit of preying upon cattle, and the natives have tocontrive all manner of ways for protecting their herds. These formida-ble beasts have been known to carry off young cattle as large asthemselves. On
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