“On the fifth morning the people--men, women, and children--of the Anglo-American Expedition, attended by hundreds of friends, who crowded the street and the capacious rooms of the Bertram Agency, began to receive their well-earned dues. The women, thirteen in number, who had borne the fatigues of the long, long journey, who had transformed the stern camp in the depths of the wilds into something resembling a village in their own island, who had encouraged their husbands to continue in their fidelity despite all adversity, were well rewarded. “The children of the chiefs who had accompanied us from Zanzibar to the Atlantic, and who, by their childish, careless prattle, had often soothed me in mid-Africa, and had often caused me to forget my responsibilities for the time, were not forgotten. Neither were the tiny infants--ushered into the world amid the dismal and tragic scenes of the cataract lands, and who, with their eyes wide open with wonder, now crowed and crooned at the gathering of happy men and elated women about them--omitted in this final account and reckoning. [Illustration: TRANSPORTING THE SECTIONS OF THE BOAT.] “The second pay-day was devoted to hearing the claims for wages due the faithful dead. Poor faithful souls! With an ardor and a fidelity unexpected, they had followed me to the very death. True, negro nature had often asserted itself; but it was, after all, but human nature. They had never boasted that they were heroes; but they exhibited truly heroic stuff while coping with the varied terrors of the hitherto untrodden and apparently endless wilds of broad Africa. “The female relatives filed in. With each name of the dead, old griefs were remembered. The poignant sorrow I felt--as the fallen were named after each successive conflict in those dark days, never to be forgotten by me--was revived. Sad and subdued were the faces of those I saw--as sad and subdued as my own feelings. With such sympathies between us we soon arrived at a satisfactory understanding. Each woman was paid without much explanation required--one witness was sufficient. Parents and true brothers were not difficult to identify. The settlement of the claims lasted five days, and then--the Anglo-American Expedition was no more.”