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The Congo and the founding of its free state
The Congo and the founding of its free state Author:Henry Morton Stanley Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AN EMBARRASSING FAREWELL. 39 CHAPTER XXVII. FROM THE BLACK RIVER TO STANLEY POOL AND BACK TO EQUATOR STATION. An embarrassing farewell—Chili pepper and ... more »tears—Success of a hypocritical stratagem—Sounds of war—Peace-making—Burying the war —The Lukanga river—Mantumha Lake — The Watwa dwarfs — Rescue of a shipwrecked crew—The Abbe Guyot—The lion and his prey—Leopoldville flourishing—Troubles at Bwa-bwa Njali's—A homicidal officer—Lieutenant Janssen and the Abbe Guyot drowned —Troubles at Kimpoko—Troubles at Bolobo—The station burnt— We are fired upon—War—A Krupp gun sent for—Weak effects of musketry—Peace restored—Settling the indemnity—Displaying the power of the Krupp—" I and my people will depart from Bolobo for ever!"—The river of Bnnga—Lukolela—A magnificent forest— The superstition oi luka—Excellent condition of Equator Station— My ideal achieved. The love which the people of Inganda bore us was so excessive, that we became conscious on leaving Equator Station that we were in a difficulty. How could we tell them that the dank forest bight, with its edging of reeds and stagnant spaces around Inganda, was hurtful to the health of Europeans, and that we were compelled, on account of sanitary and political considerations, to remove from their village to "Vangata? This would be a delicate task ! When Msenne'—our guide from Mswata—was in1883. formed that, although it was absolutely necessary for Juue 21. .,i . T T'ti us to move, still, we experienced a dislike to wound the susceptibilities of the luganda people, he, after a thoughtful pause, said that we had better leave the matter in his hands, and we should have no further trouble. As he was so conBdeut, and as cheery as a lawyer who has a good case, and as he knew the natives better than we did, we ngreed to l...« less