. The story of the rear column of the Emin Pasha relief expedition [microform] . Explorers; Birds; Insects; Explorateurs; Oiseaux; Insectes. I 112 STORY OF THE REAR COLUMN. i .1 ' I MM *8«7. for a long time, after sitting up till three in the morninfr August 14. /• • 1 • "' t ., 1 ^ Yambuya. ^nishing my letter home. August loth.—After lunch the natives '^nthe opposite shore made a fearful noise, and began going down stream as fast as they could. Then we heard shots, and on running out with my glasses I saw the smoke still hanging in the bushes behind the village, and a number of natives s
. The story of the rear column of the Emin Pasha relief expedition [microform] . Explorers; Birds; Insects; Explorateurs; Oiseaux; Insectes. I 112 STORY OF THE REAR COLUMN. i .1 ' I MM *8«7. for a long time, after sitting up till three in the morninfr August 14. /• • 1 • "' t ., 1 ^ Yambuya. ^nishing my letter home. August loth.—After lunch the natives '^nthe opposite shore made a fearful noise, and began going down stream as fast as they could. Then we heard shots, and on running out with my glasses I saw the smoke still hanging in the bushes behind the village, and a number of natives swimming in the water. Presently our native friend, with a few more, turned up, and said they had been atti:cked by Tippu-Tib's people, and some of their women taken. They begged for a white man to be sent out to ask the Arabs not to fight them. Lots bcinc drawn as to who should go, it fell to Bonny and Ward; and they went over, but could see nothing of the Arabs, who had decamped. Tiiey 1. ad killed two men and taken some women. August IGth.—Hard at work all day packing curios. The Captain and Mr. Walker gave us a little help towards our stores in cue way of some p( pper and a few. ^HH5? Native Drinking-bowls. matches, of whicli we were sadly in want. Ward had very bad news to-day, as he saw in one of the papers that the steamer in which he had sent liome a large collection of curios, and all his notes for the last two or thi'ee years, had been run into and sunk in the jVIersey, Angnst 17/ Started men 1 European pro rations to Tro three Zanziba out who the^ the world. ^ Tib's men, an employ our ti 6 for Lee August 18/ the Arabs, w] chief and tw( and had a loi It appears th Tib to collec ceedings, it ivory. The Sheik Rachi a camp on T mark, they 1 had gone o on some riv( name is A send a lett* us to the F; !:i-l. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance o
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