The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-02

Il Ndschidkutumbe dandy. The question sug-
geSted another trick to entrap their prison.
eTs. The next night tine women told them
that they did remember that some whites
lived northeast, only three or four days
march. This was merely lie invented to
induce the whites 10 travel through a swamp
in search of suppostitous friends. While on
this fools errand the natives thought they
would have good chance to kill the
strangers.
AT last the MoSchukulumbe King said he
would furnish carriers to take the goods
further north. 1t was sad EXPERIMENT, for
in the course of few miles the natives ran
off into the forests with about half the sup
his journey only little way. They were
now in the territory of another King, whose
name was Njambo. This entire tribe is cut
up into little communities, each with It's own
ruler. Njambo proved, if anything, more
treacherous and willy than his royal breth-
rem. 81 see." lie politely rema ked to the
whites. that you are very tired, and that
your brows are covered with sweat See, |
have brought YOU here eaabash OF milk !;
drink it all, it will refresh you"
Holub accepted the present with profuse
thanks, though he observed that the milk
had suspieiously green appearance, and
he tod his party not to drink any OF it.
Some OF the beverage was, however, given
TO dog, who SOON thereafter became very
sick and died in few hours. The party
tbOueHb lbtl tDOuSu VI hiIS
Njambo's hospitality; but there they were,
having lost more than half their remaining
goods, and without carriers, and it was
hard to say what they should do next.
Finally Dr. Holub decided to go north out
of the country with all his party excepting
Mr.. Oswald and two servants His plan
was to start in the night time and get far
north before daylight, so that the natives
would not discover his departure. Oswald
and his two men remained behind to guard
the goods, aud Holub intended to return as
soon as possible with carriers to take his
property north. 1t was still early morning
when he and his little band were overtaken
by the two servants they had left behind
with Oswald. They brought to him the ter
rible news that Oswald had been killed by
an aSsegai thrust and that everything in the
camp had been plundered.
The little party stole back through the
forests within sight of the scene of the trag-
edy, and seeing no natives around theV went
up to the camp. Oswald was lying amid
the ruin the natives had wrought. Every
box had been opened. and Holub found to
his CONSERVATION that he had only 300
cartridges left. All his cloth had been taken,
and the nine day bonks in which he and his
wife had recorded the history of the expe-
dition were torn to pieces. he also lost
scores of illustrations and maps he had
made during his many months of eXplora-
tons. There was nothing left in the camp
except fragments of broken packages. The
forlorn little party was without anything to
buy their way back to civilization, and only
500 cartridges with which to defend their
lives and secure food during a journey
which, If they escaped at all. must last for
months.
1t must have been a melancholy sight to
see the party picking up the scattered leaves
on which Holub had written the story of
the journey. Fortunately they found among
the bushes good many fragments of the
day books, aud one book complete which
contained the cartography of the north
Zambesi tour, without which DIR. Holub
could not have written the second volume Of
his book. They also secured enough pieces
of goods to make up a couple of bundles
which they hoped would help them TO buy
food when they emerged from the hostile
country.
Then the little party began the terrible
march which lasted for eight months. They
had fight with the savages before they got
away, but fortunately Holub was not conf
PEELED to waste many of his cartridges unon
the natives. Then they fed for life through
the wilderness, knowing that for sixty or
seventy miles they must avoid all villages,
for every mans hand was against them
They had nothing to eat except what they
killed. Every step was painful. 1t was
with the greatest difficulty they could urge