Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . n attack upon them, but werebeaten off. At night the boats were carried to the next station, and theone following to the next, and so on, until at the end of seventy-eighthours of constant labor, and almost unceasing fighting, they reached theriver. But they had gone but a short distance, when they found thatjust before them were a series of rapids extending two miles. These 41G WONDERS OF
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . n attack upon them, but werebeaten off. At night the boats were carried to the next station, and theone following to the next, and so on, until at the end of seventy-eighthours of constant labor, and almost unceasing fighting, they reached theriver. But they had gone but a short distance, when they found thatjust before them were a series of rapids extending two miles. These 41G WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. being much smaller than those they had passed before, an attempt wasmade to float the boats down them. Six canoes passed the falls in safety, but the seventh was upset. Oneof the persons in it was a Negro named Zaidi, who, instead of swimmingto the shore as the others did, clung to the boat and was hurried on tothe cataract below him. The canoe did not, however, pass immediatelyover, but striking a rock which stood upon the very edge of the falls, itwas split, one part passing over, while the other was jammed against therock. To this Zaidi clung in terror, while the waves dashed angrily. HEROIC RESCUE OF ZAIDI. around him. Instead of attempting to render assistance to the endan-gered man, the natives stood upon the shore and howled most unmerci-fully, and at last sent for Stanley. The latter at once set them at workmaking a rattan rope, by which he proposed to let a boat down to theman, into which he could get and be pulled ashore. But the rope proved too weak, and was soon snapped in twain and theboat carried over the falls. Other and stouter ropes were then laid up,three pieces of which were fastened to a canoe. But it was useless tosend the boat out without some one to guide it to the place where Zaidiwas, and Stanley looked about for volunteers. No one seemed inclined STANLEYS PERILS IN CROSSING AFRICA. 417 to undertake the dangerous job, until the brave Uledi
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