. The story of Africa and its explorers. MAP OP KEITH JOHNSTONS AND JOSEPH THOMSONS EOUTE IN 1879-80. inspiriting. But it was not these miserieswhich most depressed the porters. Theyhad a grievance; and this grievance grewin time so intolerable that the wholecaravan, with the exception of six, laiddown their muskets, and intimated theirintention of risking death or slavery by re-turning unless the wrong was righted. Forit seems that their young master, anxious topractise a more humane kind of disciplinethan the traditional rough-and-ready way ofkeeping a gang of African porters in order,had fi
. The story of Africa and its explorers. MAP OP KEITH JOHNSTONS AND JOSEPH THOMSONS EOUTE IN 1879-80. inspiriting. But it was not these miserieswhich most depressed the porters. Theyhad a grievance; and this grievance grewin time so intolerable that the wholecaravan, with the exception of six, laiddown their muskets, and intimated theirintention of risking death or slavery by re-turning unless the wrong was righted. Forit seems that their young master, anxious topractise a more humane kind of disciplinethan the traditional rough-and-ready way ofkeeping a gang of African porters in order,had fined them for misdemeanours, instead ofinflicting the more summary punishment offlogging. To this the men objected. Theywished to be kourbashed; and, as it seemedonly too probable that unless their wishes around Lake Hikwa, Rukwa, or Leopold?—a sheet of fresh water which Lake LeopoldMr. Thomson discovered to lie reached,about a degree east of the southern end ofTanganyika. Sir H. H. Johnston, who visited this sheet inNovember, 1889,
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