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 .. . He was compelled to sell one of his riding oxen for food, as none couldbe obtained. The Chiboque coming round in great numbers, their chiefdemanded tribute, and one of their number made a charge at Livingstone,but quickly retreated on having the muzzle of the travellers gun pointed STRANGE PLACES AND PEOPLES. 123 :at his head. The chief and his councillors, however, consenting to sitdown on
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 .. . He was compelled to sell one of his riding oxen for food, as none couldbe obtained. The Chiboque coming round in great numbers, their chiefdemanded tribute, and one of their number made a charge at Livingstone,but quickly retreated on having the muzzle of the travellers gun pointed STRANGE PLACES AND PEOPLES. 123 :at his head. The chief and his councillors, however, consenting to sitdown on the ground, the Makololo, well drilled, surrounded them, andthus got them completely in their power. A mutiny, too, broke outamong his own people, who complained of want of food; but it was sup-pressed by the appearance of the doctor with a double-barrelled pistolin his hand. They never afterwards gave him any trouble. Similar demands for payment to allow him to pass through the countrywere made by other chiefs, his faithful Makololo giving up their orna-ments, as he had done nearly all the beads and shirts in his most extortionate of these chiefs was loaga Panza, whose sons, after. STAMPEDE OF SOUTH AFRICAN GNUS. receiving payment for acting as guides, deserted him. All this timeLivingstone was suffering daily from the attacks of fever, which renderedhim excessively weak, so that he could scarcely sit upon his ox. The country appeared fertile and full of small villages, and the soil isso rich that little labor is required for its cultivation. It is, however, thechief district whence slaves are obtained, and a feeling of insecurity wasevident amongst the inhabitants. A demand was now made by eachchief for a man, an ox, or a tusk as a tribute. The first, was of course,refused, but nearly all the remainder of the travellers property had to beithus paid away. 124 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. On the 4th of April they reached the banks of the Quango, here onehundred and f
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