Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . ver either. Eeturning to the point at which he had first struck the Nile,Speke and his party fashioned five boats out of five plankseach, bound and caulked with mbugu rags. His destinationwas Unyoro, the country of Kamrasi, to whom messages re-garding him had been sent by Mtesa. They arrived here Sep-tember 4, and found the worst royal residence since leavingUzinza. They were lodged in dirty huts at some distancefrom the palace; and for several days the kin
Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . ver either. Eeturning to the point at which he had first struck the Nile,Speke and his party fashioned five boats out of five plankseach, bound and caulked with mbugu rags. His destinationwas Unyoro, the country of Kamrasi, to whom messages re-garding him had been sent by Mtesa. They arrived here Sep-tember 4, and found the worst royal residence since leavingUzinza. They were lodged in dirty huts at some distancefrom the palace; and for several days the king was too drunkto entertain any complaints about their lodging. At length, however, he sobered up,^ and received themessage that they wished to see him. No answer was received;and Speke sent another messenger to say that if his majestydid not receive them, they would cut off their hair and blackentheir faces, so that he would no longer be afraid of them, forfear must be the reason why he had delayed so long. Thismessage acted like magic; for he fully believed that we woulddo as we said, and disappoint him altogether of the sight* of. SEARCH rOR THE NILE SOURCES. 195 US as pure white men. The reply was, Kamrasi would nothave us disfigured in this way for all the world; men wereappointed to convey our traps to the west end at once; andKidgwiga, Vittagura and Kajunju rushed over to give us thenews in all haste, lest we should execute our threat, and theywere glad to find us with our faces unchanged. This terribledanger being averted, Kamrasi received them very graciously,and showed himself, when sober, friendly enough to acceptpresents. He was particularly impressed with Spekes exposi-tion of the account of the Ethiopians found in the Bible; butcould not resist the temptation, when the book w^as put in hishands, of counting the leaves. Concluding that each onerepresented a year since the creation, he was anxious to ascer-tain how old the world might be considered; but his patience
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