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 .. . s, and the groundswarmed with insect life. Combat witli a Monstrous Crocodile. Crocodiles were in prodigious numbers, children and calves beingconstantly carried off by them. One of his men was seized, but, retaininghis presence of mind when dragged to the bottom, he struck the monsterwith his javelin and escaped, bearing the marks of the reptiles teeth onhis thigh. The doctors men had neve
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 .. . s, and the groundswarmed with insect life. Combat witli a Monstrous Crocodile. Crocodiles were in prodigious numbers, children and calves beingconstantly carried off by them. One of his men was seized, but, retaininghis presence of mind when dragged to the bottom, he struck the monsterwith his javelin and escaped, bearing the marks of the reptiles teeth onhis thigh. The doctors men had never before used firearms, and, provingbad shots, came to him for gun medicine to enable them to shootbetter. As he was afraid of their exhausting his supply of powder, he wascompelled to act as sportsman for the party. Leaving Leeambye, he proceeded up the Leeba. Beautiful flowersand abundance of wild honey was found on its shores, and large num-bers of young crocodiles were seen sunning themselves on the sandbankswith their parents. STRANGE PLACES AND PEOPLES. 119 They had now reached the Balonda country, and received a visit froma, chieftainess, Manenko, a tall strapping woman covered with ornaments. and smeared over with fat and red ochre as a protection against theweather. She invited them to visit her uncle Shinti, the chief of the 120 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. dountry. They set out in the midst of a heavy drizzHng mist; on, how-ever, the lady went, in the hghtest marching order. The doctor enquiredwhy she did not clothe herself during the rain; but it appeared that shedid not consider it proper for a chief to appear effeminate. The men, inadmiration of her pedestrian powers, every now and then remarked:Manenko is a soldier. Some of the people in her train carried shieldscomposed of reeds, of a square form, five feet long and three these, and armed with broadswords and quivers full of iron-headedarrows, they looked somewhat ferocious, but are in reality not noted fo
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