The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-17

slave version. and such as would have appeared In
the newspaper If they had one."tne hanyema,
wanted in fact to eat the slaves, and always gave
them Just reason to capture women and children,
quite approve OF this, but the deeds had been done,
and then masters and men Joined In enc harmo-
Nous chorus-'The Manyema are bad, bad, bad,
In Going west of BamDarre, in order to embark on
the Lualaba, went down the Luamo, river OF
from one hundred to two hundred yards broad,
which rises in the mountains opposite Ujiji, and
flows across the great bend OF the Lualaba. When
who had lately been maltreated by the slaves, and
they naturally looked on me as OF the same tribe as
their prosecutors Africans are not generally um
can fairly make them understand your claim to IN
nocence and do not appear as having your "back
In asserting identity with the cruel strangers.
On calling to one voclferous lady, who gave me the
Il were the same as his, she replied with bitter
little laugh, "Then you must be hs father" Tne
worst the men did was to turn out In force, armed
with their large spears and wooden shields, and
show US out OF their districts Glad that no
collision took place, we returned to Bambarre, and
north; he to buy ivory, and to reach another part
OF Lualaba and buy canoe.
to travel over. The mountains hight gray granite
stand Ike islands In new red sandstone, and noun.
tam and valley are al clad in mantle Of different
shades Of green. The vegetation is indescribably
rank. Through the grass-if grass Il can be
called Which Il over halt an inch In aam me,
leaves 81 this meeatksTium grass are armed
way along elephant walks, rub dlsagreeably on
the side OF the face where tie gun is held, and the
hand is made sore BY tending It on the other side for
and In the mornings, or after shower these leaves
were loaded with moisture which wet us to the
each innumerable deils have To be crossed. There
may be only q thread Of water at the bottom, but
n a
gers into an adhesive compound. BY placing
one ''0n may waddie S' little distance along,
but the rank Of sgsTs ana bushes he's
The path often runs along the bed Of the riyulet
went 1T that distance seeking for part the forest
less dense for his axe In other cases the mnaie
cloth is woven and called by the same name,
'lamba, y has taken possession Of the valley The
leaf stalks, as thick as strong mans arm, ian on
mixed up by the feet of elephants and buialoes;
the slough therein is groan-compelling and deep.
faces, stand painting; the sweat trickles down my
face, and suppose that look as grim as they,
prices viii reward them at the coast for ivory OBJ
tanned with SO much toll. In some cases the SUBJ
soil has given way beneath t9 , ea nor
one, taking it all to be about calf Deep steps in to
the top Of the thigh, and naps on to a seat soft
the facial muscles, though have no other reason
for 1t than that it is better to laugh than to cry
now into Lualaba are covered with living vegetable
bridges-a species of dark glOssy-leaved grass,
with its roots and leaves felts Itself into mat that
yields twelve or fifteen inches, and that amount
Of water rises up on the leg. At every step the
like walking on deep snow. Here ana there holes
appear which we could not sound with Q stick six
imDreSSiOn
one might plump through and finish the chap
ter Where the water is shallow the lotus, OF
sacred lily, sends its roots to the bottom and
spreads its broad leaves over the oating bridge 60
as to make believe that the mat is its own but the
agent, for It often performs duty as bridge where
no lilies grow. The bridge is called BY Manyema
alter nunng nyer e IT,
Between each district OF Manyema large belts Of
the primeval forest still stand. Into these the sum-
though vertical, cannot penetrate, except by send
ing down at midday thin pencils Of rays into the
gloom. The rain water stands for months in stag
dead leaves decay on the damp soil, and make the
water Of the numerous rivulets OF the color of
70 The the scs
When one Of the giant trees falls across the road It
the mass Of tangled ropes brought down makes
cutting path round 1t work Of time which travel
TT The shelter Of the forest from che sun makes it
pleasant but the roots Of trees high ont Of the sol
the sssp ars e Sc Eza s 5s
shotgun does no harm to parrots or guinea
on t, and they are often a1a 50
or without getting glimpse Of them. His
architectural skill than the nest Of Cushat dove.
Here the ''soko sits In peltng ran with his hands
@ whats have he
they call his nest his house, and laugh at him for
being such fool as to build house and not go be-
II
Bad water and frequent WRITINGS told on us all
BY choeraic symptoms and loss Of nesh Mean
fornia gold fever at Uiiji, and we were soon over
taken by horde numbering COO muskets, all eager
Ga IN The wheps
animals had been slain. The natives knew where
they lay, and II treated civilly readily brought
dent to sharpen his teeth, as London rats do on
leaden pipes had already in this journey two
mate in the rainy season is killing work By getting
drenched to the skin once too often in Marungu
had pneumonia the illness to which have re-
ferred, and that was worse than ten feversthat is
levers treated by our medicine and not by the dirt
supplied to Bishop Mackenzie at the Cape as the
same Besides being unwilling to bear the new
corners company, / feared that by further exposure
in the rains the weakness might result In some
went seven days southwest, or little back
wards, to camp formed by the head men OF the
ivory horde, and on the 18th February went into
winter quarters found these men as civil and
kind as could WISH $50
Aletter from the Sultan of Zanzibar, which owe
to the kind Offices of Sir Bartle Frere has been OF
immense service to me with most of his subjects.
had no medicine but rest, shelter, boiling all the
water used, and new potato, found among the
natives, as restoratives, soon put me all right.
The rains continued into July and fifty weight
inches fell The mud from the cayey soil awful,
and 1t laid up some OF the strongest men, in spite
of their intense eagerness for ivory. a
lost no time after 1t was feasible to travel in
preparing to follow the river, but my attendants
were fed and lodged by the slave women, whose
husbands were away from the camp on trade, and
pretended to fear going into canoe. l consented
10 refrain from buying one. They then pretended
to fear the people, though the inhabnnts all along
the Lualaba were reported by the slaves to be re-
markedly friendly. / have heard both slaves and
freemen say, mo one will ever attack people so
good'' as they found them. Elsewhere could en-
ploy the country people carriers, and was COM
paratively independent, though deserted by some
four times over. But In Manyema no one can be
induced to go into the next district for fear they
say ofbeing killed and eaten.