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 .. . , their goods are deposited in the capital until the kings mes-sengers,who are sent into the neighboring countries, can collect the slavesand ivory he is willing to give in exchange. No stranger is allowed to proceed into these interior regions, theinhabitants of which are described as cannibals, or as dwarfs. When was at the Muato-Yanvos in 1879 he was threatened by theKioko, a
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 .. . , their goods are deposited in the capital until the kings mes-sengers,who are sent into the neighboring countries, can collect the slavesand ivory he is willing to give in exchange. No stranger is allowed to proceed into these interior regions, theinhabitants of which are described as cannibals, or as dwarfs. When was at the Muato-Yanvos in 1879 he was threatened by theKioko, a nation famous as smiths, elephant hunters, and man stealers,who are gradually spreading from the Upper Quango to the northward,and from the latest accounts are endangering the very existence of thissecluded empire. The civil judges sat under trees, each having a large staff in his hand,as an insignium of office. Incorruptible they were not, but still no oneever appealed against their decisions, and it is said never even com-plained of their injustice; but this is not in human nature, and must onlymean that no one was ever heard to do so in public, and that for veryspecial private reasons of his STANLEY AND THE CONGO. 353 As in more civilized nations, war is the great parent of taxation, theIcing being obliged to maintain a large standing army, and to keep it ingood humor by constant largesses, for a large standing army is muchlike fire—a useful servant, but a terrible master. The army is dividedinto regiments, each acting under the immediate command of the chiefin whose district they live, and they are armed, in a most miscellaneousfashion, with any weapons they can procure. In these times the tradeguns are the most valued weapons, but the native swords, bows andarrows, spears, and knives, still form the staple of their equipment. Asto uniform, they have no idea of it, and do not even distinguish the menof the different regiments, as do the Kaffirs of Southern Africa. T
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