. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . o fat by many pounds ;but the story belongs to the headmen, who delivered itwith infinite humour. Mr. Bonny was sent to the Ihuru River on the 17th,to examine an old ferry reported to be there, butreturned unsuccessful in finding a canoe, but with theinformation that the river appeared to flow from ,and was about sixty yards wide, with quiet current, andgood depth. The afternoon of the 14th, 15th and 16th of Novem-ber, were spent by the people in making amendsfor their past abstinence. What with boil
. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . o fat by many pounds ;but the story belongs to the headmen, who delivered itwith infinite humour. Mr. Bonny was sent to the Ihuru River on the 17th,to examine an old ferry reported to be there, butreturned unsuccessful in finding a canoe, but with theinformation that the river appeared to flow from ,and was about sixty yards wide, with quiet current, andgood depth. The afternoon of the 14th, 15th and 16th of Novem-ber, were spent by the people in making amendsfor their past abstinence. What with boiled, roastedplantains and porridge, they must have consumed animmense number. Probably each man had eaten 140plantains during the three days. Within a short time after leaving Andikumu onthe 19th, we passed through Anduta ; and then thecolumn passed by a picturesque hill called Kakwa,over a rough country bristling with immense rockfragments and boulders thickly covered, and surroundedwith depths of ferns. Among the rocks near our campon this date was found a store of corn and bananas,. WE ENCOUNTER A NATIVE CARAVAN. 57 which no doubt belonged to the dwarfs. Had the find a few days previously, there would have been a JlJnj„t.^riotous scramble for them; but now each man was soburdened with his private stores that they regarded itwith supreme indifference. The men also so sufferedfrom indigestion after their revel at Andikumu thatthey were unfit for travel. A five-mile march was made on the 20th. Sincestriking the dwarfs highway, unlike the loamy soilswhich absorbed the perpetual rains nearer the Ituri, thepath now led through a stiff red clayey country, which «retained the rain in pools, and made it soapy and slippery. At the noonday halt the leader of the van wandereda few hundred yards ahead on the path and encountereda native caravan from Anditoke, N, The nativesuttered a howl of surprise at perceiving him, but seeingthat he had no weapon, quickly advanced towa
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