death— Four cataracts in view o f us— Thieves amongst ^
us— Tuckey’s Cataract ever receding— The Inkisi Falls
The canoes dragged over the mountain— Trade along
the Livingstone— Ulcers and entozoa— An artful compound
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CHAPTER IV.
Glorious timber— Cutting canoes— Franksuffers from ulcers
The episode o f the fetished axe^—Rain-gauge readings
— The rise o f the river— “ Goee-goees ” — The Lady
A lice breached for the first time— A painful discovery:
Uledi’s theft — His trial aud release— The burning of
Shakespeare— Dark bees-wax, india-rubber, and fossilized
gum at Mowa— Superstitiousness o f the Mowa
people— Frank’s cheery character .. .. .. .. I0;j
CHAPTER V.
Leaving Mowa— The whirling pools o f Mowa— The Jason
swept over the falls— The “ Little Master” drowned—
Too brave!— “ Ah, Uledi, had you but saved him!”_
The sympathy o f the savages ............................ ... jja
CHAPTER VI.
Mutiny in the camp— Again among the cataracts— Frank’s
body found— The fall o f the Edwin Arnold River_
Tired out! — Wholesale desertion—-More cataracts —
“ Good-bye, my brother; nothing can save y ou !”— Three
miles in thirty days— Saved again!— The Jason found 158
CHAPTER VII.
Final warnings against theft— Humiliating a protectionist
— Kindly tribes— Five o f the Expedition abandoned to
slavery for theft— Safeni goes mad from jo y— Goaded
to crime — Ali Kiboga’s adventures— The cataract o f
Isangila— Only five marches from white faces ¡— Staunch
to the death— Rum—My appeal to Embomma— The for-
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. — hope— The “ powerful man” insults us— Struggl-
° on-_“ We are saved, thank G o d ¡’’ - “Enough now;
I 3 ? to ” My letter of thanks - Approaching civilization
-Amongst whites— Boma -T h e Atlantic Ocean .. . . 1 7
CONCLUSION.
Kabinda-San Paulo de L o an d a -O n board H. M. S. In dustry—
Cape T ow n -N a ta l-Z a n z ib a r -J o y of the re
turned— Rewarding my gallant fo llow e r s -T h e faithful
dead not ’ fo rgo tten -T h e moments of parting, sweet ^
and sad— Laus Deo! .. ... .......... •• /’ " * " " 234
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INDEX
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