The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-10-05

1he r1Iil- became snlky, aud refused TO 20
farther aud with las brother. sat ora al an'
hill lingering tneir guns suspicIOusly- The
whole caravan w1- brought 90 q dead halt,
and rhf umId negroes were iTrcsOluie about
taking the part Of their master. Stanley
serzed a double-barreled smOOth-bOre and b.
fore their eyes put Ia two charges Of buck
shot, and then walking 10 within thirty PAGES
OF the guide and his companion presented
and cooked the gun, telling them that he had
twenty-fOur small bullets In II. and that If
rhev did not put down their arms and come
~ him he would blow them TO pieces. They
advanced, but with their guns in then hands.
when a faithful porter rushed in and seized
the weapons. But for this movement, Stan
lev would doubtless have fired. and he after
wards congratulated himself on having been
spared the catastrophe. The guide begged
for forgiveness, and all went on well again.
Travelling Oh through one chiefs domin-
ions, they were warned of a war raging in
the neIghboring province, and were obliged
10 make another yexatious detOur, and this
time through a country infested with lions,
leopa rds and wild bOars. At night, while
encamped contiguous to a limpid stream,
with a lofty line OF enormous trees rising
dark and awful above the travellers, the lions
issued from the brakes and pTowIed about
the w~ell-set bush-fence Of the camp, venting
their fearful clamor until morning. Eight
days travel through this wilderness without
seeing any human inhabitants. and their
stock Of provisions were beginning TO run
low, when they came to a native village,
situated on a table-tOpped mountain. Soon
the needed provisions, meat and grain was
forthcoming, and the mems Jaws were busy
i'm the process Of mastication. And now
recommended the demands for tribute for the
privilege of passing thro .gh the country, the
caravan being halted every two or three miles
by the demands from one chief or another.
Coming in sight of a river that lay between
them and Lake Tanganyika, on whose bOrd-
ers they hoped TO find Livingstone, they
halted TO see OH what terms, they could be
ferried across the stream. Late in the after
noon a messenger came from the chief, bear
ing a bundle of sticks, ffty-six in number.
Each stick, they were informed, represented
a dot. or four yards of cloth, amounting to
one whole bale. The demand was accom-
panied with the significant remark that the
white man could not run away from this
chief, rs he had from Mirambo. After a
wearyiug palaver the demand for ftry-six
doti was reduced 10 twenty-three, which
was sent and ~graciously received. not how
ever Us II soon appeared, for crossing the
river, but for the privilege of passing through
the chiefs country in peace. Just as Stanley
was retiring for the night, wearied in mind
and body, there came another demand for
four more cloths. These were paid, after n
little haggling, lest the beggars, imagining
that they mad asked too little, would make
another demand in the morning. Until three
O'Clock p. N. the next day, continued the
negotiations for ferTying across the river,
consisting Of arguments, threats, quarrels,
loud shouting and stormy debate on both
sides. Finally the price in cloth and beads
was agreed upon and paid, and the crossing
WIS effected without other los than that Of
a donkey, dragged off by the crocodiles,
whose tapering heads dotted the river every
where, and whose hides appeared To be I'M
p~ervious TO 4 twO-ounce ball.
Resumiug the march after passing the
river, 4 caravan is met, which reports that
five days before they left a white man at
Ujiji. He wore, they said, the same style of
clothes as Stanley, and had hair on his face
like SANKEY'S, only that the others was
white. This IS Livingstone. Hurrah for
Upi! The men share the Joy of their COM
mander, for they should be coming back again
directly. Being so happy at the prospect,
Stanley buys three goats and five gallons of
native beer, which is eaten and drunk mer-
uly, and then they push on.
But more and more frequent came the
demands for tribute. No sooner had they
got rid of one demand then they were met
by another, each beggar declaring that he
was the great king, the owner of the country.
Here Is a specimen of one of their diplo-
matte O%ratiOns:
Why does the white man stand in the road? The
sun is hot; let him seek the shelter Of my village,
where we can arrange this little matter between Us.
Dies he not know that there IS a king in Uhha, and
that |, MiOnyu. an his servant? IL is n custom
with Us t. make friends with great men, such as the
white man. All Arabs and Wsuguana stop here
and gives US cloth. Does the white man mean To 90
ON without paying? Why should he desire war? |
know he IS stronger than we are here, his men have
guns, and We have but spears and arrows; hut Uhha
is large, and has plenty of people. The children of
the king are many. If he comes to be 4 friend 10 us
he will come TO our village. give US something, and
then 20 on his way.
At length. this perpetual Matchmaking re-
duced the party to the necessity of running
away from the face of man, to avoid being
utterly ruined. So AT ? o'clock one morn
ing they silently stole away past the huts of
4 village, and plunged into the jungle. Here
for two or three days they travelled eau
tiOusly along, not daring 10 fire a gun or
make any other noise for fear Of attracting
attention. BY and bye they found them
selves safe beyond the limits of the tribute
taking tribes, and emerging from the jungle,
came in sight of the long-sought lake. JOY
fully pushing on, they march into Ujiji,
startling the ebon inhabitants with their zen
de joie, volley after volley, the banner of
America for the first time unfurled TO the
breeze Of Central Africa, futtering joyously
in front Stanley is now in a perfect fever
of excitement. The march is all too slow.
He would like to settle the vexed question
by one personal view. Where is he? Sud
denly a man-a black man-at SANKEY'S
elbow. shouts in English, " How do you do,