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               [Illustration: Henry M. Stanley Signature

                                 1890]

               COPYRIGHT 1890 BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS




                           IN DARKEST AFRICA

                                 OR THE

                   QUEST, RESCUE, AND RETREAT OF EMIN
                         GOVERNOR OF EQUATORIA

                                   BY

                            HENRY M. STANLEY

             WITH TWO STEEL ENGRAVINGS, AND ONE HUNDRED AND
                      FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS

                             IN TWO VOLUMES

                                VOL. II

            "I will not cease to go forward until I come to
                   the place where the two seas meet,
      though I travel ninety years."--KORAN, chap. xviii., v. 62.

                                NEW YORK
                        CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

                                  1890

                        [_All rights reserved_]

                          COPYRIGHT, 1890, BY
                        CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

                      Press of J. J. Little & Co.,
                         Astor Place, New York.




CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.


CHAPTER XXI.

WE START OUR THIRD JOURNEY TO THE NYANZA.

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Mr. Bonny and the Zanzibaris--The Zanzibaris' complaints--Poison of the
Manioc--Conversations with Ferajji and Salim--We tell the rear column of
the rich plenty of the Nyanza--We wait for Tippu-Tib at Bungangeta
Island--Muster of our second journey to the Albert--Mr. Jameson's letter
from Stanley Falls dated August 12th--The flotilla of canoes starts--The
Mariri Rapids--Ugarrowwa and Salim bin Mohammed visit me--Tippu-Tib,
Major Barttelot and the carriers--Salim bin Mohammed--My answer to
Tippu-Tib--Salim and the Manyuema--The settlement of the
Batundu--Small-pox among the Madi carriers and the Manyuema--Two insane
women--Two more Zanzibari raiders slain--Breach of promises in the
Expedition--The Ababua tribe--Wasp Rapids--Ten of our men killed and
eaten by natives--Canoe accident at Manginni--Lakki's raiding party at
Mambanga--Feruzi and the bush antelope--Our cook, Jabu, shot dead by a
poisoned arrow--Panga Falls--Further casualties by the natives--Nejambi
Rapids--The poisoned arrows--Mabengu Rapids--Child-birth on the
road--Our sick list--Native affection--A tornado at Little Rapids--Mr.
Bonny discovers the village of Bavikai--Remarks about Malaria--Emin
Pasha and mosquito curtain--Encounter with the Bavikai natives--A cloud
of moths at Hippo Broads--Death of the boy Soudi--Incident at
Avaiyabu--Result of vaccinating the Zanzibaris--Zanzibari stung by
wasps--Misfortunes at Amiri Rapids--Our casualities--Collecting food
prior to march to Avatiko                                              1


CHAPTER XXII.

ARRIVAL AT FORT BODO.


Ugarrowwa's old station once more--March to Bunda--We cross the Ituri
River--Note written by me opposite the mouth of the Lenda River--We
reach the Avatiko plantations--Mr. Bonny measures a pigmy--History and
dress of the pigmies--A conversation by gesture--The pigmy's
wife--Monkeys and other animals in the forest--The clearing of
Andaki--Our tattered clothes--The Ihuru River--Scarcity of food; Amani's
meals--Uledi searches for food--Missing provisions--We reach
Kilonga-Longa's village again--More deaths--The forest improves for
travelling--Skirmish near Andikumu--Story of the pigmies and the box of
ammunition--We pass Kakwa Hill--Defeat of a caravan--The last of the
Somalis--A heavy shower of rain--Welcome food discovery at Indemau--We
bridge the Dui River--A rough muster of the people--A stray goat at our
Ngwetza camp--Further capture of dwarfs--We send back to Ngwetza for
plantains--Loss of my boy Saburi in the forest--We wonder what has
become of the Ngwetza party--My boy Saburi turns up--Starvation Camp--We
go in search of the absentees, and meet them in the forest--The Ihuru
River--And subsequent arrival at Fort Bodo                            37


CHAPTER XXIII.

THE GREAT CENTRAL AFRICAN FOREST.


Professor Drummond's statements respecting Africa--Dimensions of the
great forest--Vegetation--Insect life--Description of the trees,
&c.--Tribes and their food--The primaeval forest--The bush proper--The
clearings: wonders of vegetable life--The queer feeling of loneliness--A
forest tempest--Tropical vegetation along the banks of the
Aruwimi--Wasps' nests--The forest typical of human life--A few secrets
of the woods--Game in the forest--Reasons why we did not hunt the
animals--Birds--The Simian tribe--Reptiles and insects--The small bees
and the beetles--The "jigger"--Night disturbances by falling trees,
&c.--The Chimpanzee--The rainiest zone