Through the Dark Continent, Vol. 2 (of 2) : $b or, The sources of the Nile around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic OceanStanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
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Through the Dark Continent, Vol. 2 (of 2) : $b or, The sources of the Nile around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean
Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
Africa, Central -- Description and travel; Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904 -- Travel -- Africa, Central
Mutiny in the camp—Again among the cataracts—Frank’s body 317
found—The fall of the Edwin Arnold river—Tired
out!—Wholesale desertion—More cataracts—“Good-bye, my
brother; nothing can save you!”—Rushing blindly on—Saved
again!—The _Jason_ found
CHAPTER XVI.
Final warnings against theft—Humiliating a 328
protectionist—Kindly tribes—Five of the Expedition
abandoned to slavery for theft—Safeni goes mad from
joy—Goaded to crime—Ali Kiboga’s adventures—The cataract
of Isangila—Only five marches from white faces!—Staunch to
the death—Rum—My appeal to Embomma—The forlorn hope—The
“powerful man” insults us—Struggling on—“We are saved,
thank God!”—“Enough now; fall to”—My letter of
thanks—Approaching civilization—Amongst whites; Boma—The
Atlantic Ocean
CONCLUSION.
Kabinda—San Paulo de Loanda—Simon’s Bay—Cape 362
Town—Natal—Zanzibar—Joy of the returned—The martyrs to
geography—Reverie—Laus Deo!
INDEX 375
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
NO.
1. UJIJI, LOOKING NORTH FROM THE MARKET-PLACE, VIEWED _To face 1
FROM THE ROOF OF OUR TEMBÉ AT UJIJI. (_From a page_
photograph by the Author_)
2. THE “HIGH PLACES” OF THE SPIRIT MTOMBWA: VIEW OF ” 28
MTOMBWA URUNGU
3. IN COUNCIL: THE COURTYARD TO OUR TEMBÉ AT UJIJI. ” 49
(_From a photograph by the Author_)
4. A VILLAGE IN SOUTH-EAST MANYEMA ” 64
5. THE DESPERATE SITUATION OF ZAIDI, AND HIS RESCUE BY ” 178
ULEDI, THE COXSWAIN OF THE BOAT
6. THE FIGHT BELOW THE CONFLUENCE OF THE ARUWIMI AND THE ” 212
LIVINGSTONE RIVERS
7. THE ATTACK OF THE SIXTY-THREE CANOES OF THE PIRATICAL ” 240
BANGALA
8. VIEW OF THE RIGHT BRANCH, FIRST CATARACT, OF THE ” 262
LIVINGSTONE FALLS, FROM FOUR MILES BELOW JUEMBA
ISLAND
9. AT WORK PASSING THE LOWER END OF THE FIRST CATARACT OF ” 264
THE LIVINGSTONE FALLS, NEAR ROCKY ISLAND
10. “LADY ALICE” OVER THE FALLS ” 274
11. CUTTING OUT THE NEW “LIVINGSTONE” CANOE ” 292
12. PASSING NSÉTO FALLS ” 296
13. THE CIRCUMNAVIGATORS OF THE VICTORIA NYANZA AND LAKE ” 300
TANGANIKA, AND EXPLORERS OF THE ALEXANDRA NILE AND
LIVINGSTONE (CONGO) RIVER
14. THE MASSASSA FALLS, AND THE ENTRANCE INTO POCOCK ” 304
BASIN, OR BOLOBOLO POOL
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