Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . ded themselves with as much food as theirmeans would allow; enough, according to their calculation, tolast for three weeks or a month; and on the twentieth of Sep-tember embarked upon their voyage. Their journey was without special adventure until theyreached the village and market of Kirree. Here they met with ^a fleet of about fifty canoes, ascending the river. To the joy-ful astonishment of the travelers, the British Union Jack floating above th
Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . ded themselves with as much food as theirmeans would allow; enough, according to their calculation, tolast for three weeks or a month; and on the twentieth of Sep-tember embarked upon their voyage. Their journey was without special adventure until theyreached the village and market of Kirree. Here they met with ^a fleet of about fifty canoes, ascending the river. To the joy-ful astonishment of the travelers, the British Union Jack floating above the heads of the new-comers, most of whomwere clad in garments of European cut. But all their fond an-ticipations vanished as they saw that the men in the canoeswere all natives. The leader, who was in the first boat, beck-oned to the elder Lander to approach; to resist Avas hopeless;the canoes held each about forty men, all of whom appearedto be well armed; their own square-built vessel was incapableof speed. Under such circumstances, Lander determined tosell his life as dearly as possible, and encouraged his follower^to do the same,. CROSSING A RIVER IN THE WILDS OF AFRICA. 114 CLAPPERTON AND DENHAM. The assailants were evidently bent upon robbery, and re-lieved the Landers boat of her entire cargo while the crewwere defending themselves. Having accomplished this, theydeparted, leaving the little party to lament the loss of theirgoods. This was not all they did, however; large as the attackingparty was, they gave chase; hoping to overtake the boat inwhich the booty was placed, and compel its return. In themean time, the younger Lander, who had gone on ahead in an-other canoe with a part of the attendants, had discovered hisbrothers plight and come to his rescue. Such was the eagerness of the robbers to share the plunder,that many of the war-canoes clashed against one another, andthree or four were upset. The boat of the younger Landerwas also upset, and he was unable to reach h
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