. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... ls for anaccount of a fight between the Arabs and natives, which tookplace within sight of the camp on the Aruwimi : It was toward night when the onslaught began. The sud-den sound of the war-like drums of the surprised natives camebooming across the water, followed by the fierce rattle of theArab musketry. Dark figures and light were soon mixed to-gether in the fray. The natives fought bravely; but they fellrapidly before the rifle. Pelted with the deadl
. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... ls for anaccount of a fight between the Arabs and natives, which tookplace within sight of the camp on the Aruwimi : It was toward night when the onslaught began. The sud-den sound of the war-like drums of the surprised natives camebooming across the water, followed by the fierce rattle of theArab musketry. Dark figures and light were soon mixed to-gether in the fray. The natives fought bravely; but they fellrapidly before the rifle. Pelted with the deadly hail of shot,they were soon vanquished. Then from hut to hut,the flamesof ruin began to spread; and in the lurid light the women andchildren were marched forth to the slave-hunters stockade. In connection with the rescue of the rear column from itsposition of danger and privation, Mr. Stanley continues: Having gathered such as were left of the rear column, andsuch Manyuemas as were willing of their own accord to ac-company me, and entirely re-organized the expedition, we setout on our return to the Nyanza. Out of the 102 members re-. STANLEY KESCUES EMIN PASHA. 763 maining I doubted whether fifty would live to reach the lake;but, having collected a large number of canoes, the goods andsick men were transported in these vessels in such a smooth,expeditious manner that there were remarkably few casualtiesin the remnant of th*e rear column. But the wild natives hav-ing repeatedly defeated Ugarrowwas raiders, by this discover-ed the extent of their own strength, gave us considerabletrouble, and inflicted considerable loss among our best men,who had always, of course, to bear the brunt of fighting andthe fatigue of paddling. However, we had no reason to be dissatisfied with the linewe had made, when progress by river became too tedious anddifficult, and the order to cast off the canoes was given. Thiswas four days journey above Ugarrowwas station, or aboutthree hundred miles above
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