Fred took the chair the next day, and resumed the narrative4 at the point where it was dropped by his cousin. He turned several leaves of the book in slow succession, and said as he did so:
"Mr. Stanley was destined5 to be greatly disappointed. In passing Inkisi Falls, he felt certain that he had at last reached Tuckey's Cataract, and henceforth would have an uninterrupted passage to the sea. But he soon found that there were other and larger cataracts7 to be passed, and as he had lost nine of his canoes he was in great need of an addition to his fleet. While the transport party and the natives were busy hauling the canoes around Inkisi Falls, taking them first to the table-land, twelve hundred feet high, and then down again, the carpenters were set to cutting down two of the largest trees and hollowing them out for boats. Two boats, the Livingstone and the Stanley, were then made; the former, hewn from a single log of teak, was fifty-four feet long, two feet four inches deep, and three feet two inches wide. The Stanley was not so large, but she proved an excellent boat, and was a credit to her builders. Afterwards a third boat was completed, to take the place of the Jason, which was lost at Kalulu Falls.
"The country around Inkisi Falls was covered with fine timber. Mr. Stanley tells us that many of the trees were twelve feet and upwards9 in circumference10, and their trunks were without branches for forty or fifty feet. The teak tree from which the Livingstone was made was thirteen feet three inches in circumference, and when prostrate11 on the ground gave a branchless log fifty-five feet in length.
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THE NEW CANOES, THE "LIVINGSTONE" AND THE "STANLEY."
"The work of descending13 the various rapids and falls below Inkisi," said Fred, "was much like what had engaged the time and attention of the explorers since their departure from Stanley Pool. In some instances the boats were run through the rapids where it was thought they could be carried safely; in others they were lowered by means of cables, and at the worst falls they were dragged overland in the manner already described. In the passage of the Mowa Rapids the Lady Alice struck the rocks, and was so severely14 injured that the repair of the boat took an entire day's labor15 by Mr. Stanley and Frank Pocock. Even then she took water badly, and with their limited materials it was found impossible to stop the leak properly. They were finally able to do so, with some beeswax which was brought to them by the natives.
"The third of June was a melancholy16 day for Mr. Stanley, as it was marked by the drowning of Frank Pocock, his last remaining white companion. The circumstances were these:
CUTTING OUT THE NEW "LIVINGSTONE" CANOE.
"Frank had been suffering from ulcers17 upon his feet and was unable to walk. Mr. Stanley had gone from the camp at Mowa to establish a new camp above the falls of Zinga, three miles lower down the Congo. Orders had been given for the boats to be lowered carefully down the rapids, while Frank was to be carried in a hammock. The hammock-bearers did not arrive as soon as expected, and as the Jason, under the command of the skilful19 Uledi, was starting to descend12 the rapids, Frank[Pg 337]
[Pg 338] insisted upon being taken on board. In the rapids the boat was overturned in a whirlpool, and out of its eleven occupants three were drowned, among them "the little master," as Frank was called by the men of the expedition. His body was found by a fisherman, four or five days later, floating in the water below the rapids. Mr. Stanley gave the locality the name of Pocock Basin, in memory of the friend and companion whose loss he so deeply mourned that for some days he was hardly able to attend to the pressing duties of his position.
FRANCIS JOHN POCOCK.
Drowned June 3, 1877.
"Of his feelings on this sad occasion Mr. Stanley says:
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"As I looked at the empty tent and the dejected, woe-stricken servants, a choking sensation of unutterable grief filled me. The sorrow-laden mind fondly recalled the lost man's inestimable qualities, his extraordinary gentleness, his patient temper, his industry, cheerfulness, and his tender friendship; it dwelt upon the pleasure of his society, his general usefulness, his piety20, and cheerful trust in our success, with which he had renewed our hope and courage; and each new virtue21 that it remembered only served to intensify22 my sorrow for his loss, and to suffuse23 my heart with pity and regret, that after the exhibition of so many admirable qualities and such long, faithful service, he should depart this life so abruptly24, and without reward.
"When curtained about by anxieties, and the gloom created by the almost insurmountable obstacles we encountered, his voice had ever made music in my soul. When grieving for the hapless lives that were lost, he consoled me. But now my friendly comforter and true-hearted friend was gone! Ah, had some one then but relieved me from my cares, and satisfied me that my dark followers25 would see their Zanjian homes again, I would that day have gladly ended the struggle, and, crying out, 'Who dies earliest dies best,' have embarked26 in my boat and dropped calmly over the cataracts into eternity27."
FALL OF THE EDWIN ARNOLD RIVER INTO THE POCOCK BASIN.
"A few days after the death of Frank Pocock," continued Fred, there was a mutinous28 outbreak in the camp, many of the men refusing to work. They said they would rather be slaves to the natives than[Pg 340] stay where almost every day some of their number were drowned in the river. Thirty-one of the men packed up their property and left the camp. Mr. Stanley sent Kachéché, the detective, after them, and he also interested the chiefs of the tribes around Zinga to arrest the mutineers and bring them back to camp.
THE CHIEF CARPENTER CARRIED OVER ZINGA FALL.
"Diplomacy29 and force combined secured the return of the rebellious30 men, and they were fully18 pardoned for their defection. Mr. Stanley pointed6 out to them the necessity of pushing forward, and on the morning after they came back everybody went at work with a will to pass the dreaded31 Zinga Fall.
"Assisted by one hundred and fifty Zinga natives whom Mr. Stanley had hired, three of the boats were drawn32 up to the level of the rocky point above Zinga Fall on the morning of June 23d. The fourth boat was the Livingstone, whose construction has been described; it weighed about three tons, and when only a short distance above the shore the cable snapped and the boat slid back into the river. The chief carpenter of the expedition clung to it, and in the excitement of the moment he sprang into it just as it left the shore. Being unable to swim, he could not save himself, and was carried over the fall. Neither the carpenter nor the boat were ever seen again. It is supposed that the boat was jammed and caught among the rocks at the bottom of the river, where it was driven by the terrible force of the cataract.
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THE MASASSA FALLS, AND THE ENTRANCE INTO POCOCK BASIN, OR BOLOBOLO POOL.
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"For another month and more the steadily33 diminishing band of explorers toiled34 among the rapids and cataracts of the Congo, and on the 30th of July drew their boats into a little cove8 about fifty yards above the Isangila cataract, the 'Second Sangalla' of Captain Tuckey. Here Mr. Stanley learned that Embomma, or Boma, was only five days away by land, and that there were three other cataracts, besides several rapids, before permanently35 smooth water could be reached. And here," said Fred, "I will turn to the book and read Mr. Stanley's account of how the explorers reached the sea."
CAMP AT KILOLO, ABOVE ISANGILA FALLS.
"There was not the slightest doubt in my mind that the Isangila cataract was the second Sangalla of Captain Tuckey and Professor Smith, and that the Sanga Yellala of Tuckey and the Sanga Jelalla of Smith was the Nsongo Yellala, though I could not induce the natives to pronounce the words as the members of the unfortunate Congo Expedition of 1816 spelled them.
"As the object of the journey had now been attained36, and the great river of Livingstone had been connected with the Congo of Tuckey, I saw no reason to follow it farther, or to expend37 the little remaining vitality38 we possessed39 in toiling40 through the last four cataracts.
"I announced, therefore, to the gallant41 but wearied Wangwana that we should abandon the river and strike overland for Embomma. The delight of the people manifested itself in loud and fervid42 exclamations43 of gratitude44 to Allah! Quadruple ration-money was also distributed to each man, woman, and child; but, owing to the excessive poverty of the country, and the keen trading instincts and avaricious[Pg 343] spirit of the aborigines, little benefit did the long-enduring, famine-stricken Wangwana derive45 from my liberality.
"Fancy knick-knacks, iron spears, knives, axes, copper46, brass47 wire, were then distributed to them, and I emptied the medicine out of thirty vials, and my private clothes-bags, blankets, waterproofs48, every available article of property that might be dispensed49 with, were also given away, without distinction of rank or merit, to invest in whatever eatables they could procure50. The 31st of July was consequently a busy day, devoted51 to bartering52, but few Wangwana were able to boast at evening that they had obtained a tithe53 of the value of the articles they had sold, and the character of the food actually purchased was altogether unfit for people in such poor condition of body.
"At sunset we lifted the brave boat, after her adventurous54 journey across Africa, and carried her to the summit of some rocks about five hundred yards north of the fall, to be abandoned to her fate. Three years before, Messenger of Teddington had commenced her construction; two years previous to this date she was coasting the bluffs55 of Uzongora on Lake Victoria; twelve months later she was completing her last twenty miles of the circumnavigation of Lake Tanganika, and on the 31st of July, 1877, after a journey of nearly seven thousand miles up and down broad Africa, she was consigned56 to her resting-place above the Isangili cataract, to bleach57 and to rot to dust!
"A wayworn, feeble, and suffering column were we when, on the 1st of August, we filed across the rocky terrace of Isangila and sloping plain, and strode up the ascent58 to the table-land. Nearly forty men filled the sick-list with dysentery, ulcers, and scurvy59, and the victims of the latter disease were steadily increasing.[Pg 344] Yet withal I smiled proudly when I saw the brave hearts cheerily respond to my encouraging cries. A few, however, would not believe that within five or six days they should see Europeans. They disdained60 to be considered so credulous61, but at the same time they granted that the 'master' was quite right to encourage his people with promises of speedy relief.
VIEW FROM THE TABLE-LAND.
"So we surmounted62 the table-land, but we could not bribe63 the wretched natives to guide us to the next village. 'Mirambo,' the riding-ass, managed to reach half-way up the table-land, but he also was too far exhausted64 through the miserable65 attenuation66 which the poor grass of the western region had wrought67 in his frame to struggle farther. We could only pat him on the neck and say, 'Good-bye, old boy; farewell, old hero! A bad world this for you and for us. We must part at last.' The poor animal appeared to know that we were leaving him, for he neighed after us—a sickly, quavering neigh, that betrayed his excessive weakness. When we last turned to look at him he was lying on the path, but looking up the hill with pointed ears, as though he were wondering why he was left alone, and whither his human friends and companions by flood and field were wandering.
"After charging the chief of Mbinda to feed him with cassava leaves and good grass from his fields, I led the caravan69 over the serried70 levels of the lofty upland.
"At the end of this district, about a mile from Mwato Wandu, we appeared before a village whose inhabitants permitted us to pass on for a little distance, when they suddenly called out to us with expostulatory tones at an almost shrieking71 pitch. The old chief, followed by about fifty men, about forty of whom carried guns, hurried up to me and sat down in the road.
"In a composed and consequential72 tone he asked, 'Know you I am the king of this country?'
"I answered, mildly, 'I knew it not, my brother.'
"'I am the king, and how can you pass through my country without paying me?'
"'Speak, my friend; what is it the Mundelé can give you?'
"'Rum. I want a big bottle of rum, and then you can pass on.'
"'Rum?'
"'Yes, rum, for I am the king of this country!'
"'Rum!' I replied, wonderingly.
"'Rum; rum is good. I love rum,' he said, with a villainous leer.
"Uledi, coming forward, impetuously asked, 'What does this old man want, master?'
"'He wants rum, Uledi. Think of it!'
"I WANT RUM."
"'There's rum for him,' he said, irreverently slapping his majesty73 over the face, who, as the stool was not very firm, fell over prostrate. Naturally this was an affront74, and I reproved Uledi for it. Yet it seemed that he had extricated75 us from a difficult position by his audacity76, for the old chief and his people hurried off to their village, where there was great excitement and perturbation, but we could not stay to see the end.
"Ever and anon, as we rose above the ridged swells78, we caught a glimpse of the wild river on whose bosom79 we had so long floated. Still white and foaming80, it rushed on impetuously seaward through the sombre defile81. Then we descended[Pg 345] into a deep ravine, and presently, with uneasy, throbbing82 hearts, we breasted a steep slope rough with rock, and from its summit we looked abroad over a heaving, desolate83, and ungrateful land. The grass was tall and ripe, and waved and rustled84 mournfully before the upland breezes. Soon the road declined into a valley, and we were hid in a deep fold, round which rose the upland, here to the west shagged with a thin forest, to the north with ghastly sere85 grass, out of which rose a few rocks, gray and sad. On our left was furze, with scrub. At the bottom of this, sad and desolate, ran a bright, crystal clear brook86. Up again to the summit we strove to gain the crest87 of a ridge77, and then, down once more the tedious road wound in crooked88 curves to the depth of another ravine, on the opposite side of which rose sharply and steeply, to the wearying height of twelve hundred feet, the range called Yangi-Yangi. At 11 a.m. we in the van had gained the lofty summit, and fifteen minutes afterwards we descried89 a settlement and its cluster of palms. An hour afterwards we were camped on a bit of level plateau to the south of the villages of Ndambi Mbongo.
"The chiefs appeared, dressed in scarlet90 military coats of a past epoch91. We asked for food for beads92. 'Cannot.' 'For wire?' 'We don't want wire!' 'For cowries?' 'Are we bushmen?' 'For cloth?' 'You must wait three days for a market'. If you have got rum you can have plenty!!' Rum! Heavens! Over two years and eight months ago we departed from the shores of the Eastern Ocean, and they ask us for rum!
"Yet they were not insolent93, but unfeeling; they were not rude, but steely[Pg 346] selfish. We conversed94 with them sociably95 enough, and obtained encouragement. A strong, healthy man would reach Embomma in three days. Three days! Only three days off from food—from comforts—luxuries even! Ah me!
"The next day, when morning was graying, we lifted our weakened limbs for another march. And such a march!—the path all thickly strewn with splinters of suet-colored quartz96, which increased the fatigue97 and pain. The old men and the three mothers, with their young infants born at the cataracts of Masassa and Zinga, and another near the market-town of Manyanga, in the month of June, suffered greatly. Then might be seen that affection for one another which appealed to my sympathies, and endeared them to me still more. Two of the younger men assisted each of the old, and the husbands and fathers lifted their infants on their shoulders and tenderly led their wives along.
VILLAGE SCENE, WITH GRANARY IN FOREGROUND.
"Up and down the desolate and sad land wound the poor, hungry caravan. Bleached98 whiteness of ripest grass, gray rock-piles here and there, looming99 up solemn and sad in their grayness, a thin grove100 of trees now and then visible on the heights and in the hollows—such were the scenes that with every uplift of a ridge or rising crest of a hill met our hungry eyes. Eight miles our strength enabled us to make, and then we camped in the middle of an uninhabited valley, where we were supplied with water from the pools which we discovered in the course of a dried-up stream.
"Our march on the third day was a continuation of the scenes of the day preceding until about ten o'clock, when we arrived at the summit of a grassy101 and scrub-covered ridge, which we followed until three in the afternoon. The van then appeared before the miserable settlement of Nsanda, or, as it is sometimes called, Banza (town) N'sanda N'sanga. Marching through the one street of the first village in melancholy and silent procession, voiceless as sphinxes, we felt our way down into a deep gully, and crawled up again to the level of the village site, and camped about two hundred yards away. It was night before all had arrived.
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IN THE VALLEY.
"After we had erected102 our huts and lifted the tent into its usual place, the chief of Nsanda appeared. He was kindly103, sociable—laughed, giggled104, and was amusing. Of course he knew Embomma, had frequently visited there, and carried thither105 large quantities of Nguba, ground-nuts, which he had sold for rum. We listened, as in duty bound, with a melancholy interest. Then I suddenly asked him if he would carry a makanda, or letter, to Embomma, and allow three of my men to accompany him. He was too great to proceed himself, but he would despatch106 two of his young men the next day. His consent I obtained only after four hours of earnest entreaty107. It was finally decided108 that I should write a letter, and the two young natives would be ready next day. After my dinner—three fried bananas, twenty roasted ground-nuts, and a cup of muddy water, my usual fare now—by a lamp made out of a piece of rotten sheeting steeped in a little palm-butter I wrote the following letter:
"'Village of Nsanda, August 4, 1877.
"'To any Gentleman who speaks English at Embomma:
"Dear Sir,—I have arrived at this place from Zanzibar with one hundred and fifteen souls, men, women, and children. We are now in a state of imminent109 starvation. We can buy nothing from the natives, for they laugh at our kinds of cloth, beads, and wire. There are no provisions in the country that may be purchased, except on market-days, and starving people cannot afford to wait for these markets. I, therefore, have made bold to despatch three of my young men, natives of Zanzibar, with a boy named Robert Feruzi, of the English Mission at Zanzibar, with this letter, craving110 relief from you. I do not know you; but I am told there is an Englishman at Embomma, and as you are a Christian111 and a gentleman, I beg you not to disregard my request. The boy Robert will be better able to describe our lone68 condition than I can tell you in this letter. We are in a state of the greatest distress112; but if your supplies arrive in time, I may be able to reach Embomma[Pg 348] within four days. I want three hundred cloths, each four yards long, of such quality as you trade with, which is very different from that we have; but better than all would be ten or fifteen man-loads of rice or grain to fill their pinched bellies113 immediately, as even with the cloths it would require time to purchase food, and starving people cannot wait. The supplies must arrive within two days, or I may have a fearful time of it among the dying. Of course I hold myself responsible for any expense you may incur115 in this business. What is wanted is immediate114 relief; and I pray you to use your utmost energies to forward it at once. For myself, if you have such little luxuries as tea, coffee, sugar, and biscuits by you, such as one man can easily carry, I beg you on my own behalf that you will send a small supply, and add to the great debt of gratitude due to you upon the timely arrival of the supplies for my people. Until that time I beg you to believe me,
"'Yours sincerely,
"'H. M. Stanley,
"'Commanding Anglo-American Expedition
for Exploration of Africa.
"'P.S.—You may not know me by name; I therefore add, I am the person that discovered Livingstone in 1871.—H. M. S.'
"I also wrote a letter in French, and another in Spanish as a substitute for Portuguese116, as I heard at Nsanda that there was one Englishman, one Frenchman, and three Portuguese at Embomma; but there were conflicting statements, some saying that there was no Englishman, but a Dutchman. However, I imagined I was sure to obtain provisions—for most European merchants understand either English, French, or Spanish.
ANT-HILLS ON THE ROAD TO BOMA.
"The chiefs and boat's crew were called to my tent. I then told them that I had resolved to despatch four messengers to the white men at Embomma, with letters asking for food, and wished to know the names of those most likely to travel quickly and through anything that interposed to prevent them; for it might be possible that so small a number of men might be subjected to delays and interruptions, and that the guides might loiter on the way, and so protract117 the journey until relief would arrive too late.
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"The response was not long coming, for Uledi sprang up and said, 'Oh, master, don't talk more; I am ready now. See, I will only buckle118 on my belt, and I shall start at once, and nothing will stop me. I will follow on the track like a leopard119.'
"'And I am one,' said Kachéché. 'Leave us alone, master. If there are white men at Embomma, we will find them out. We will walk, and walk, and when we cannot walk we will crawl.'
"'Leave off talking, men,' said Muini Pembé, 'and allow others to speak, won't you? Hear me, my master. I am your servant. I will outwalk the two. I will carry the letter, and plant it before the eyes of the white men.'
ONE OF THE GUIDES.
"'I will go, too, sir,' said Robert.
"'Good. It is just as I should wish it; but, Robert, you cannot follow these three men. You will break down, my boy.'
"'Oh, we will carry him if he breaks down,' said Uledi. 'Won't we Kachéché?'
"'Inshallah!' responded Kachéché, decisively. 'We must have Robert along with us, otherwise the white men won't understand us.'
"Early the next day the two guides appeared, but the whole of the morning was wasted in endeavoring to induce them to set off. Uledi waxed impatient,[Pg 350] and buckled120 on his accoutrements, drawing his belt so tight about his waist that it was perfectly121 painful to watch him, and said, 'Give us the letters, master; we will not wait for the pagans. Our people will be dead before we start. Regard them, will you! They are sprawling122 about the camp without any life in them. Goee—Go-ee—Go-ee.' Finally, at noon, the guides and messengers departed in company.
"Meanwhile a bale of cloth and a sack of beads were distributed, and the strongest and youngest men despatched abroad in all directions to forage123 for food. Late in the afternoon they arrived in camp weakened and dispirited, having, despite all efforts, obtained but a few bundles of the miserable ground-nuts and sufficient sweet potatoes to give three small ones to each person, though they had given twenty times their value for each one. The heartless reply of the spoiled aborigines was, 'Wait for the zandu,' or market, which was to be held in two days at Nsanda; for, as among the Babwendé, each district has its respective days for marketing124. Still what we had obtained was a respite125 from death; and, on the morning of the 5th, the people were prepared to drag their weary limbs nearer to the expected relief."
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