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eothcr until the blood mingled. There.
after they-ar blood brothers and sworn
70 assist each other.
Mr.. Ward thinks there is no danger Of
the elephant becoming extinct h Africa
certainly for oentaries-as q kere are
millions of elephants where no hunters
can get 10 them. HippopoIami IN that
section arc very large and fierce. and
sometimes make boating dangerous, rs
they dive and come up under the boat.
There is plenty of ivory. iron, copper,
coal and other valuables in the Congo
basin; but what's the use, asks Mr. Ward,
Of 50 much suffering and death, TO say
nothing Of wholesale massacre and de-
m0ralization. 70 get what can be easily
dispensed with or found in abundance
in some cool climate and safe region?
From the experience thus far il appears
that notiu- but determination Of the
natives Will make the region safe, and
Is TO the fevers nothing will avail against
them until the whole country is under
cultivation.
After three years at the Congo stations
llr. Ward went 70 Stanley Pool and
there joined the Emin Bey relief expedi-
ton. and received from Stanley the com
mand Of one OF the divisions. The other
officers were Maj. Edmund IL Barttelot,
son Of Sir Walter BarttelOt, VI. p, and
Messrs. jameson, Troup and B0nny. Ol
these Barttelot was murdered by ma
tive, jameson died of the fever, Troup
got back To Bangola, but in a dying con
dition. The expedition continued as 4
body 20 BOlobo, and there so many were
broken down that station was estab-
hshed and Mr.. Ward put in command.
Then began the awful struggle of brave
men, against pestilence, starvation and
savage warfare.
At Yambuya, on the Aruwimi, Stan
ley located another camp, leaving Jane
son and Maj. Barttelot with $50 men,
and pushed on to the remote interior.
Smallpox, pestilence and murder rapid
II reduced the force at both camps. Fl
nally the second camp was abandoned
and the few survivors lOated down tie
river, fighting Off the swarming canni-
balls, who attacked them at every turn OF
the stream, shouting their war cry OF
''yamma. yamma" (meat). jameson
died Just after reaching Ward. Twice
did Ward force his way to the coast and
bring back medicine and supplies, but
on the last return his legs were masses
of ulcers, and the force was being so rap
idly reduced that the remnant had 70
choose between a desperate struggle to
the coast or death in the wilderness.
Stanley, be it noted. had returned to the
Aruwimi station, taken the supplies lelt
there, and resumed his marching ana
fighting toward the north and east.
The return journey to the coast was
through ever increasing horrors. Reach
ing the station where forty men had beer
left, Wards command found there forty
bleaching skeletons. From their records
il seemed they had been 50 reduced by
disease that they could not procure food,
and SO died * starvation. For twenty
eight days and nights they fioated down
the Congo. fighting all the way, then
they reached the settlements and below
that were comparatively safe. The
cauuibals were bolder than before, say
MIR. Ward, knowing Us TO be 50 reduced.
Their yells were something horrible:
their spears and arrows We're constantly
hying about us, and their Gendish screams
IF 'yamma, yamma9 warned rs what
would he our fate If we fell into their
hands