The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-20
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After sforty-eight hours waiting we
heard the joyful sounds, which woke us
all into new life and vigor. The food was
most greedily seized by the hungry peo!'
p}e,,.and SO animating was the report OF
the food puryeyors that the soldiers, one
and all, clamored to be led away that
afternoon. Nowise 10th myself to march
away from this fatal Jungle, I"'assented: :
but two more poor fellows breathed their
last before we left camp. - =.
We camped that night at the base of
a rocky hill, overlooking a broad plain,
which, after the intense gloom and con.
fined atmosphere Of the jungle, was
great plea sure to us. and, next day,
striking north along this plain, after
long march, under fervid sun, of TWEEN.
ty miles, reached the district of S,um,aa., IN IN
Urimi.
A STRANGE PEOPLE.
AT 1rimi, Suna, we discovered people
remarkable for their manly beauty, noble
proportions and nakedness. Neither
man nor boy had either cloth or skins to
cover his nudity; the women bearing
children only boosted Of goat skins. With
all their physical beauty and fine proper.
tons they were the most suspicious
people we had yet seen. 1t re-
quired great tact and patience to induce
them to part with food for our cloth
and leads. They owned no chief. but re-.
spected the injunctlons of their elders,
with whom I treated fer permission, to
pass throug h their land. The permission
was reluctantly given, and food was be-.
grudgingly sold, but we bore with this
silent hostility patiently, and took great
care that no overt act on the part Of the
expedition should change this suspicion
into hatred.
Our people were so worn out with ia
tigue that six more poor fellows died here,
and the sick list numbered thirty. Here
also Edward Pocock fell seriously i'll of ty-
phoid fever. For his sake we'll as for the
other sufferers. halted in Suna four
days; but it was too evident that the
longer we stayed in their country the
natives regarded US with less favor, and
it was incumbent on US to move, though
much against my inclination. There
were many reasons why we should have
halted several DAYS longer, for Edward
Pocock Was daily getting worse, ard the
sick list increased alarming'y; dysentery,
diarrhea. chest diseases, sore feet, tasked
my medical knowledge to the utmost, but
prudence forbade it. = The rear guards
and captains Of the expedition we're
therefore compelled to do the work
OF carriers, and every soldier
for the time being was converted into
pagan, or porter. Pocock was put into
a hammock, the sick and weakly were en-
couraged to do their utmost to move on
with the expedition to more suspicious
lands, where the natives were less supi-
cious, wi ere food was more abundant.and
where cattle were numerous. Imbued with
this hope, the expedition resumed its
march across the clear, open and we'll
cultivated country Of Urimi.
PoCoCK FREATHEs HIS LAST,
We reached Chiwyu about ten o'clock.
after short march. anA here the young
Englishman, Edward Pocock, brcathed
his last, to the great grief of US all.
They had then maj ched 400 miles from
the sea and were az the base Of the water
shed whence the streams begin to flow
Nileward. AS they journeyed on they
became assured Of this by the deprcs-
sions and hollows trending northward
and northwestward. Two days they
joulneyed through Urim to Mangara,
where kirf Hallack, the carrier of Kirk S
letter bag to Livingstone having drop
ped behind, was waylaid and murdered.
by the natives. On the 2lst of January
they entered Ituru, district Of northern,
Urimi.
THE LEEwCNBu RIVER.
The village near which We camped was
called Vinyata, and was situated in a
broad and populous valley, containing,
probably. some 1000 or 5000 souls.
Here We discovered the river which re.
ceived all the streams that flowed be-
tween Vinyata and Chiwyu. 1t is called
here Leewumbu, and its how from this
valley was west. Even in the dry season
it is considerable stream. some twenty
feet in width and about two feet deep.
but in the rainy season it becomes a deep
and formidable river.
The natives received us co!dly, but as
we were but two days journey from
lramba redoubled my exertions to con.
ciliate the surly suspicious people, and
that evening my efforts seemed crowned
with success, for thay brought milk, eggs
and chickens Is me for sale: for which 7
parted freely with cloth. The fame of
my libera]ity reached the ears of the
great man of the valley, the magic doc.
tor, who, in the absence Of recognized
king, is treated with the Difference and
respect due 10 royalty by the natives.
This important parsonage brought me
fat OK on the second day of my arrival
at Vinyata, and in exchange received
double its value in cloth and beads, and