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 .. . had severely tried every mans constitution,and all felt weak in spirit if not ill in body. Weary, harassed, feeblecreatures, they reached Chiwyu, four hundred miles from the sea, andcamped near the crest of a hill 5,400 feet high. Here Edward Pocockbreathed his last. He was laid under an acacia, and upon the trunk ofthis fine old tree a cross was cut deeply, in memory of a faithful fol-lowe
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 .. . had severely tried every mans constitution,and all felt weak in spirit if not ill in body. Weary, harassed, feeblecreatures, they reached Chiwyu, four hundred miles from the sea, andcamped near the crest of a hill 5,400 feet high. Here Edward Pocockbreathed his last. He was laid under an acacia, and upon the trunk ofthis fine old tree a cross was cut deeply, in memory of a faithful fol-lower. Hence two rivulets run, gradually converging, and finally uniting intoa stream which trends toward Lake Victoria. So here the extremesouthern sources of the Nile were discovered; but up to this point theexplorer had, as he said, childs play, to what he afterwards encount-ered. We have already seen what this childs play was like. From sad Chiwyu to Vinyata was the route. After passing Mangina,the expedition entered Iturn, and so to Izanjih, where Kaif Halleck wasseized with asthma. He would lag behind, and so Stanley proceededgently to Vinyata, where the expedition arrived on the 21st of January,. AFRICAN WARRIOR RUSHING TO BATTLE. (374) STANLEYS GREAT JOURNEY FROM SEA TO SEA. 375 1875. Here a magic doctor paid Stanley a visit, and cast longing eyes at the stores. Scouts had been meantime sent after the man Kaif Hal- leck, and he was found murdered on the edge of a wood, his body gashed by many wounds. Hostilities Break Out. Next day, after the departure of the magic doctor, who came foranother present, the natives showed hostile symptoms. One hundredsavages, armed and in warlike, costume, came around, shouting andbrandishing their weapons. At this juncture Stanley, follo^^ing Living-stones practice, decided to make no counter demonstration; but toremain quiet in camp, and provoke no hostility. This plan did notanswer, however. The natives mistook for cowardice the wish for p
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