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 .. . ved at Zanzibar, where hefound Tipo-tipo, whom he had employed in 1877, when, he made hiscelebrated journey from sea to sea. Six hundred men were already en-listed for the expedition. Emin was reported to have a large quantityof ivory in his possession, and it was thought that this would go fartoward defraying the expenses of the expedition; the amount to bederived from the ivory would be r
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 .. . ved at Zanzibar, where hefound Tipo-tipo, whom he had employed in 1877, when, he made hiscelebrated journey from sea to sea. Six hundred men were already en-listed for the expedition. Emin was reported to have a large quantityof ivory in his possession, and it was thought that this would go fartoward defraying the expenses of the expedition; the amount to bederived from the ivory would be realized when the party, on their return,reached Zanzibar. Stanley considered it important to enlist the services of Tipo-tipo, andoffered to give him the position of governor at Stanley Falls, and to payhim a fair salary. , Tipo was pleased with this offer and consented toaccompany the party. In the latter part of Februaiy a steamer left Zan-zibar for the mouth of the Congo; on board were seven hundred menwho were to accompany Stanley. The voyage required about fourweeks, and that too with a steamer, giving us an idea of the immensedistances in the Dark Continent. Of course the steamer sailed around. (726) STANLEYS LAST GREAT EXPEDITION. 727 the Cape of Good Hope, but when Stanley arrived on the western coa^tat the mouth of the Congo he was still twelve hundred and sixty-sixmiles from Aruwimi, from which point he would be four hundred milesfrom Emins capital in the Equatorial Province; thus making a journeyof nearly seventeen hundred miles from the coast. Appalling Difficulties. Pushing on with all possible speed, he was at Aruwimi about themiddle of June, having suffered some delay from insufficient transporta-tion, a thing by no means unusual in African exploration. Wishing torebuild the storehouses at Stanley Falls, he left men for that purpose,and very soon began the overland march. He ascended the RiverAruwimi as far as it was navigable, and when he began his land march,th
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