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 .. . e market-place volleys were discharged from aparty down near the creek on the panic-stricken women, who dashed atthe canoes. These, some fifty or more, were jammed in the creek, andthe men forgot their paddles in the terror that seized all. The canoeswere not to be got out, for the creek was too small for so many; menand women, wounded by the balls, poured into them, and leaped andscrambled
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 .. . e market-place volleys were discharged from aparty down near the creek on the panic-stricken women, who dashed atthe canoes. These, some fifty or more, were jammed in the creek, andthe men forgot their paddles in the terror that seized all. The canoeswere not to be got out, for the creek was too small for so many; menand women, wounded by the balls, poured into them, and leaped andscrambled into the water, shrieking. A long line of heads in the rivershowed that great numbers struck out for an island a full mile off: ingoing towards it they had to put the left shoulder to a current of abouttwo miles an hour; if they had struck away diagonally to the oppositebank, the current would have aided them, and, though nearly three milesoff, some would have gained land; as it was, the heads above watershowed the long line of those that would inevitably perish. Shot after shot continued to be fired on the helpless and perishing^Some of the long line of heads disappeared quietly; whilst other poor. (271) ?272 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. creatures threw their arms high, as if appeahng to the great Fatherabove, and sank. One canoe took in as many as it could hold, and allpaddled with hands and arms: three canoes, got out in haste, picked upsinking friends, till all went down together, and disappeared. One manin a long canoe, which could have held forty or fifty, had clearly lost hishead; he had been out in the stream before the massacre began, and nowpaddled up the river nowhere, and never looked to the drowning. By and by all the heads disappeared; some had turned down streamtowards the bank, and escaped. Dugumbe put people into one of thedeserted vessels to save those in the water, and saved twenty-one, butone woman refused to be taken on board from thinking that she was tobe mad
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