. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... f women, and I honor the memory of Muley bin Salim 528 STANLEY CROSSES THE DARK CONTINENT — Muslim and slavetrader though he be—-the poor priest who hadwrought this happychange. With a strongdesire to improve stillmore the character ofMtesa, I shall beginbuilding on the founda-tion stones laid by Mu-ley bin Salim. I shalldestroy his belief in Is-lam, and teach the doc-trines of Jesus of Naza-reth. Two days after hisarrival at Usavara,Mtesa distinguished S
. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... f women, and I honor the memory of Muley bin Salim 528 STANLEY CROSSES THE DARK CONTINENT — Muslim and slavetrader though he be—-the poor priest who hadwrought this happychange. With a strongdesire to improve stillmore the character ofMtesa, I shall beginbuilding on the founda-tion stones laid by Mu-ley bin Salim. I shalldestroy his belief in Is-lam, and teach the doc-trines of Jesus of Naza-reth. Two days after hisarrival at Usavara,Mtesa distinguished Stamlee by holdingwhat he termed a re-view of his fleet, fortycanoes, holding sometwelve hundred men.* The captain of eachcanoe was dressed in awhite cotton shirt anda cloth head-cover,neatly folded turbanfashion, while the ad-miral wore over hisshirt a crimson jacketprofusely decoratedwith gold braid, andon his head the redfez of Zanzibar. Eachcaptain, as he passedus, seized shield andspear, and with thebravado of a matadoraddressing the Judgeof the Plaza to beholdhis prowess, wentthrough the perform-ance of defense and I5i:lte;i^. FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN. 529 attack by water. The admiral won the greatest applause, forhe was the Hector of the fleet, and his actions, though notremarkably graceful, were certainly remarkably naval review over, Mtesa commanded one of the cap-tains of the canoes to try and discover a crocodile or hippopot-amus. After fifteen minutes he returned with the report thatthere was a young crocodile asleep on a rock about two hun-dred yards away. *Now, Stamlee, said Mtesa, show my women how whitemen can shoot. * [For the great chief was attended by a considerable numberof the women composing his harem.] To represent all thesons of Japhet on this occasion was a great responsibility, butI am happy to say that—whether owing to the gracious influ-ense of some unseen divinity who has the guardianship oftheir interests or whether from mere luck
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