Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . splendid specimen of his kind,being six feet eight inches from tip of nose to end of tail. They left Bambarre February 16, but progressed very way lay across a great bend of the Lualaba, and theytraveled on foot. After a journey lasting about six weeks,they came once more to the bank of the Lualaba, a mightystream, at least three thousand yards broad, and so deep thatthe people living near by declared it could never, at any timeof the year, be
Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . splendid specimen of his kind,being six feet eight inches from tip of nose to end of tail. They left Bambarre February 16, but progressed very way lay across a great bend of the Lualaba, and theytraveled on foot. After a journey lasting about six weeks,they came once more to the bank of the Lualaba, a mightystream, at least three thousand yards broad, and so deep thatthe people living near by declared it could never, at any timeof the year, be forded. The current, he found to be about twomiles an hour. But having reached the banks of this mighty river, the trav-eler found that he could go no farther, for the present at least;the suspicions of the natives prevented him from obtainingcanoes either for descending or for crossing it. Here he re-mained from March 31 until July 20, hoping day by day to beable to obtain canoes; getting bits of uncertain informationnow and then from the people about the rivers of the sur-rounding country, and striving to teach those with whom he. Livingstones last journey. 393 came in contact. Finally, there was a terrible fight at thispoint, which was a market-place for the whole surroundingcountry. A quarrel between the natives and a slave of theiv^ory-traders who had come hither w^as taken up by all inter-ested, and between three and four hundred persons , powerless to prevent the slaughter, could onlylook on at the affrighted people struggling in the river intowhich they had plunged .for safety, and, when the fight wasover, intercede for those who had fled to him for safety. Sofar had the people been carried by their anger, that after itwas all over, no one could give a connected account of thereasons for the fight. They had seen their friends fighting,and had joined in. • On July 20, he started back to Ujiji; but the journey backwas different from anything that this
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