Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-04-18

the bottles. They were deeked for battle,
and we also cleared our decks for action.
The prospect before us was very dark-ey,
Their old plantation songs did not have the l
old familiar sound. | began to feel like
Walker in Niggeraugua, ana wanted to be a
walker myself. We paused on our oars it
looked like it was all oar with us. We
heard them rafting their bones and drum
ming their banjos. Our bones ratified, but
we had no banjos.
sWhar We gwine?" yelled those Tennes-
see minstrels.
ssThat's what I'd like to know myself" |
shouted, as | saw the .contrabsnds begin to
close around us.
"You better done git away from heah
That is what / thought myself, SO | pre-
pared to. do or get done, and with twenty
canoes ordered a charge. The battle ragged,
50 did we. Tt was like carrying the war in
to the heart of Africa. We slewthose burnt
Corkonians on all sides. Some OF them act
ed as if they were already half slowed. 1t
:. seemed as if we would %depopulate Africa,
and put a sudden end to the slave trade.
!, Still they closed in upon us to meet Their
: doom and doom their meat. We would spit
! seven or eight on one rifle ball. We raised
$ umbrellas and thus kept off their arrows
A and spears. The river was choked VIII
y dead colored gentlemen. 1t was'one OF TIT
most famous nay-val battles on record, %
rather on water. The two surviving mem
bers Of the enemy escaped to the shore, am
we proceeded down the stream, after putin:
a piece of court plaster on one OF my me
who was wounded in the heel during tn
Il battle by me stepping on it.
- Our force numbered $50 men, with a II
serve squad of eighty armed apes, all we
y trained and disciplined. Each canoe VIZ
- drawn by an alligator or a h~ippopotamu
!, Our passage (ike our word) was often dl
puted, but though we were frequently q
= feated, we always came out victorious.
always gave my note for the provision
49, which we got of the natives, because l w
conscientious, and did not want to take an
thing for nothing, or nothing for anythln
ITO The further we went the longer that rv
cot. We thought the end @f 1t was (
DIV somewhere. At times the river fell doN
over rocks at the cataracts-which were 7
ost all in my eye-and Broke itself all to piec
nts We slid down these and often turned o
zen them, losing several men in those catar'
cidents. BY this means we got wet throl
for and I had no extra shirt in my pocket
nts cause 1 had nothing to put a pocket on. :
en- provisions ran out and for weeks we had
It'll more to eat than you would get at a seco
div rate boarding house, until, perhaps,
no might find an old boot to chew. .
.uld The Congo is an African river ahd
course it's waters are dark. 1 shall pres
ldI it to the Royal Geographical Society. "
they will do with it I do not know, but 7
ests can put it in their vest-pockets for all 1 c
f. in 1t is cheaper to take a pen and scratch n
Y is on bald places in maps. | want my m
ape regular, besides, l prefer making exp
tions next in the moon
IN a The Congo washes many miles OF q
be- lent land but never any of the natives.
dur It Congo to thunder for me. Your
the atfectionate friend, sTANLE
Con-
and
!. We A GOOD thing is told OF a WaShln