Ten years in Equatoria; . abush, or anything to catch hold of; we were in the water up to ourchins. The scene changed; the travellers, no longer in a line, butscattered in groups over a large extent, attempted to cross swampswider than the one we had left behind us, in order to get to thedry land. Without taking any trouble to find a ford, nowstumbling over papyrus roots, or heaps of mud, and sinking in the 4i6 TEN YEARS IN EQUATORIA. iiuarshy soil, wet from head to foot, after about two hoursstruggling we reached the banks, and ran along the road to thehills, which led us to the Mpogo village
Ten years in Equatoria; . abush, or anything to catch hold of; we were in the water up to ourchins. The scene changed; the travellers, no longer in a line, butscattered in groups over a large extent, attempted to cross swampswider than the one we had left behind us, in order to get to thedry land. Without taking any trouble to find a ford, nowstumbling over papyrus roots, or heaps of mud, and sinking in the 4i6 TEN YEARS IN EQUATORIA. iiuarshy soil, wet from head to foot, after about two hoursstruggling we reached the banks, and ran along the road to thehills, which led us to the Mpogo village, the residence of Igomero,the son of the king. It was night, and our efforts to save some of the oxen which hadfallen having been vain, we were obliged to abandon them. A message from the king, brought by a prince of the royalfamily, granted the caravan permission to get the necessary suppliesof bananas, beans, peas, and sweet potatoes in the fields along ourroute—but limited to the farms that were near the A WO.\rA.\ STOLEN. Stanley, on account of this concession, strictly forbade the membersof the caravan to take the cattle and property found in thedwellings. On the 14th of July we arrived at Euganda, whose chief,.Vasingana, is a kinsman of Ntali, where a sad event preventedStanley from carrying out his plan of an early departure. Somesoldiers and porters of the caravan having succeeded in evading thesurveillance of the camp, went to a village on the mountains, andtried to steal goats and other property from the huts of the at all frightened by the rapacious invasion, a good manynatives attacked the thieves, made six prisoners, and seized twoguns. Stanley was indignant, with reason; but through the chiefof Euganda he obtained their release and the return of the rifles;.but he declared openly that, in the case of similar events takingplace, he would abandon the culprits to their fate. Circumstances had chans^ed. AVe were no loncjer among: a A BOLD POP
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