. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... aside, andspun around contemptuously, as though we were too insignif-icant to be wrecked; then availing ourselves of a calm mo-ment, we resumed our oars, and soon entering the ebb-tide,rowed up river and reached the sandy beach at the junction ofthe Nkenke with the Livingstone. June 3, Stanley left the camp at Mowa to proceed to Zinga,in order to establish a camp at the latter place; the boats werethen to be transported overland, since the river would not
. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... aside, andspun around contemptuously, as though we were too insignif-icant to be wrecked; then availing ourselves of a calm mo-ment, we resumed our oars, and soon entering the ebb-tide,rowed up river and reached the sandy beach at the junction ofthe Nkenke with the Livingstone. June 3, Stanley left the camp at Mowa to proceed to Zinga,in order to establish a camp at the latter place; the boats werethen to be transported overland, since the river would not al-low of a voyage between these two points. Frank Pocock wasleft behind, for the time, until the leader should send menback with a hammock to carry him forward, for he was suffer-ing so much with ulcers on both feet that he was quite shoes of both had given out, though Stanley managed tokeep his, tattered and slit as they were, upon his feet; andthe slightest wound from the roughness of the road is liablein that climate to be poisoned by the bite of the insects. ButPocock was impatient, and insisted upon being taken in a37. STANLEY CROSSES THE DARK CONTINENT. 581 canoe which Uledi had been ordered to proceed with. In vainthe faithful servitor argued that it was not safe for them to goby river; the young Englishman, a waterman by training, laugh-ed at his fears, and declared it was but cowardice which madehim and his comrades hesitate. The boatmen were at lastgoaded by these taunts to undertake that which their betterjudgment told them was simply fool-hardy. * In a few seconds they had entered the river; and in obedi-ence to Frank, Uledi steered his craft for the left side of theriver. But it soon became clear that they could not reach was a greasy slipperiness about the water that was de-lusive, and it was irresistibly bearing them broadside over thefalls; and observing this, Uledi turned the prow, and boldlybore down for the center. Roused from his seat by
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