The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-23

the Congo River.
While proceeding to Zanzibar in Feb
ruary. 1873. in the chartered steamer
Albion, writes Henry d. Stanley, the
celebrated African explorer, in Pail
Mall Budget, we stopped at Alden to
take In GOAL Presently bright Somali
youth, who had padded his own canoe,
swung himself aboard our ship, and
after making fast his little craft with
a lanyard sccosted me with: want a
boy, sirT'
mo"
me good boy, sir. Do anything"
mo, thank you"
81 hear you go to Africa and want
men. l been to America, been fore
the mast been coachman, been butler
n Brooklyn with Mr.. Hines I'd like
DO go with you, sir"
why, you are quite prodigyl How
old are your
Seventeen, sir"
] now examined hfn more closely.
He was tall, shapely, comefy, inteIli-
gent young man. with curly slk hair,
and look OF quite ready for any
thing" about him.
''Wen, what wages do you want?'
Anything you like to give, sir. Dol
lar. two dollar. three-dollar month.
You find out yOrsef by-m'-by what l
worth. If I'm no good, no money"
'Why, you are extraordinary. I'll
give Won ten shillings a month, and we
shat see afterward Eh?"
'Aw-right, SIR"
And upon those terms Dualla, the
SomaG boy, entered my service. For
Beyeral months / did not pay much
heed to him. There had been no occa-
sion for any exhibition of superior abiI-
ity or courage
One day new rifles were served to
company No. l. They were taught
how TO manipulate them and how to
disoOnnect their parts. Finally tar
get was set up at point blank range
and prize was offered to the best
shot, and in order to show the ZanZi-
bars what good shooting was, Eve
European officers ware requested 81
step forward md sEai5.L GAe.r SAN.
Bnt, to my shame, not oae whI5c raan
hit tho target
Dualla was called upon. Straight as
On arrow he stood second and fired,
plugging the target near the center.
At Stanley Pool an officer requested
the loan of our new steel barge that he
might proceed up river and visit his
friends at the next station.
The steel boat pulled twelve oars,
and completely equipped and launched
on the Upper Congo had COST Us about
eight hundred pounds. 10 was lent
with an Injunction that on his return
he should draw her up carefully on the
beach out Of harms way and paddock
her chain The lieutenant faithfully
promised, went mp the river, and, on
coming back, reported himself and as
cured me Of the security of the boat.
The next morning the boat was need
ed for a special servica But she was
not on the beach and no one knew
what had become of her.
The lieutenant was questioned, and !
it was discovered that he had given, or
{ IS for securing the boat, but had not |
waited to sec his orders carried out
The crew, it then TRANSFERRED, had SIM
ply rowed her ashore and each man |
had sprung out and gone to his own |
mess 1t was then obvious to all of us |
that the surge from the Great cataract, /
which was but two miles beloS, had |
entered the cove, lifted the boat clear
off the strand. aud receding towards the |
terrible vortex had borne her away |
with all her equipments aboard.
Though it appeared hopeless that we
should ever hear of the boat again,
were dispatched IN as many directions
across the country to warn the natives
down the river and offer rewards for
her recovery, and / set off with Dualla
End another towards'the Great cataract
Of Kintamo, over the hill Of Leopold
vile.
On reaching the summit overlooking
the cataract, Stretch, one of the young
with his sharp eyes de-
tected the boat about midstream
s stranded on a reef, the lower part of
W hich seemed 70 hang over the edge of
the roaring cataract. With my glass
could see her like tiny speck COM
pared TO the mile-wide river Above
the reef the puissant Congo was treach-
srouSly placid, but we, who had so
often crossed il two miles above the
station within view of the gulf had
often occasion to dread its terrible
and below the reef 1t was ali
4 scene of remorseless fury-a count
ess series of tossing waves and spray
,rowded crests, and here and there
reritable trwers which were no sooner
formed than they seemed TO be swung
bodily into the air to be followed
BY others The eye was fascinated by
The wild picture Of tremendous strength
and incessant rage which the Great
cataract furnished at this view OF it.
One could gaze at it for hours for its
suggestion of ceaseless passion, power,
md its awful lngulfngness, while its
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