. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... ngry, having but little foodto start with, and having marched too rapidly to obtain muchon the road. Eating their last morsel, they rested for thenight; and early the next morning were again on the way. Amessenger had been sent ahead, asking any charitably dis-posed person to send a little food to meet them on the way;and this morning, a messenger met them, carrying a basketcontaining wine, bread, tins of sardines, and a sausage. Atrader at Katombela had
. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... ngry, having but little foodto start with, and having marched too rapidly to obtain muchon the road. Eating their last morsel, they rested for thenight; and early the next morning were again on the way. Amessenger had been sent ahead, asking any charitably dis-posed person to send a little food to meet them on the way;and this morning, a messenger met them, carrying a basketcontaining wine, bread, tins of sardines, and a sausage. Atrader at Katombela had sent them; and as they approachedthe town, they saw a couple of hammocks coming, followed by 506 CAIMERON-LIVINGSTOHE SEARCH EXPEDITION. three men carrying baskets; another good Samaritan had cometo meet the white man who had crossed Africa from the east-ern to the western coast. Having thus followed Lieut. Camerons footsteps to thelimits of civilization, here we leave him; for once arrived atsettlements of white men, however rude they may be, andlargely populated by the natives of Africa, we pursue his ad-ventures no longer. ^ -? /. Native Women Carrying Their Children on the March. What had been accomplished by his journey? We shall seelater on how Stanley esteemed his discovery that the Lukugawas the outlet of Tanganyika; but there was one fact whichhe had indubitably ascertained—that the Lualaba was not atributary of the Nile. Livingstone had unwillingly admittedthat it might be a confluent of the Congo; Cameron foundthat this w^as most probably true; it remained for Stanley toprove, by the best of all evidence, that this great river of Cen-tral Africa reaches the sea by the estuary so long known to thecivilized world, but never thoroughly explored until within theninth decade of the nineteenth century. CHAPTER XIX. STAJiLEY CROSSES THE DARK COJ^TIJfEMT FROMOCEAJs TO OCEAK> TN 1873, in consequence of the cession of some Dutch fortsIT* on the African coast to Great Brit
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