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 .. . d. Alarm and Flig^lit. The servants, who were eagerly anticipating a hearty supper, such asrarely fell to their lot, started to their feet, the half-cooked meat washastily packed, and Livingstone and his guide Mpanda set out to engageextra carriers to aid in the retreat. As they approached the next village, however, the inhabitants poured LIVINGSTONE LOST IN THE DARK CONTINENT. 229 out. The
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 .. . d. Alarm and Flig^lit. The servants, who were eagerly anticipating a hearty supper, such asrarely fell to their lot, started to their feet, the half-cooked meat washastily packed, and Livingstone and his guide Mpanda set out to engageextra carriers to aid in the retreat. As they approached the next village, however, the inhabitants poured LIVINGSTONE LOST IN THE DARK CONTINENT. 229 out. The Mazitu were there, too, and the terrified people were fleeing tothe Zalanyama mountains, on the south-west. Mpanda and his men nowwished to go home and look after their own property, but Livingstonemanaged to persuade them to remain, and follow with him the spoor ofthe fugitives. Taking his stand at the foot of the rocky sides of theZalanyama range, now crowded with trembling natives, our hero intendedto defend his property to the last; but after waiting some time he heardthat the enemy had gone to the south. Had he carried out his firstscheme of going forward in search of men, he would have walked. LIVINGSTONE AND HIS MEN CROSSING SPONGE. Straight into the hands of the Mazitu, and his fate would probably havediffered but little from that assigned to him in Musas story. Most of the region before these mountains are reached is lowlands,and filled with sponges; Livingstones description of the latter willstand the reader in good stead when he comes to the constant mentionof these obstructions in the later travels towards the north. They wereamong the most formidable obstacles he had to encounter, and at timesgreatly impeded his progres The bogs, or earthen sponges, of this country, occupy a mostimportant part in its physical geography, and probably explain the 230 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. annual inundations of most of the rivers. Wherever a plain slopingtowards a narrow opening in
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