men, and detected immediately the slack arm and Europeans
almost despairing owner, To this place he sprang with
a shout, threw himself forward, and by his gestures
inspired the company to renewed effort, until the hill’s
summit was at last attained. While another might
have stormed and threatened, and become frantic with
rage, he merely electrified his company by thé healthy
spirit of work that was in him.
Captain Anderson had been too long in command of
ships not to know the value set upon honest goodwill
in the performance of duty, consequently he knew no
shirking, and thus left the Congo with an unexception-
ably good character, and a more substantial testimonial
for excellent service rendered.
The third is Mr. A. B, Swinburne, formerly a student
of Christ s Hospital, London. He has now served forty-
one months on the Congo, first as clerk, then as. camp
storekeeper, and afterwards as chief of Isangila station.
Young as he was, he constructed the first brick storehouse
above Boma, and was the only station chief who
could for some years be taught that a vegetable garden
was a valuable adjunct to a station. He impressed me
very favourably by his gentleness and his quiet, mild
disposition, by which he effected a marked impression
on the aborigines in the neighbourhood of his station.
His small company grew attached to him—there was
peace, and an utter absence of jarring in his place, until
it grew to resemble a family circle. His house afforded
a quiet, cool resting-place for people hound up-river.
The little decorations and finical “ nattiness” bespoke
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