The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-09-22
DuALLA WAS Al HERO.
Only 5omali BOY. But Ho Had
Nerve and Courage.
tIenry ~ Stanley Tells How lie saved =
steel isarge from rerishing III tho
Great Cataract ~ Ikintamo on
the Congo River.

tue GohHn river
While proceeding 70 Zanzibar in Feb
rnary. 1879. Ia the chartered steamer
Albion, writes Henry Nj Stanley. tho
celebrated African explorer. IN Pail
Mall Budget, we stopped III Alden III
take in coal. Presently q bright Somali
youth, who had padded hisown canoe,
swung himself aboard our ship, and
after making fast his little craft with
a lanyard accostcd me withi Want =
boy, sir2"
mo"
Me- good boy, SIT. Do anything
No. thank you.n
II hear you go to Africa and want
men. heen 10 America, been fore
the mast, been coaehman, heea butler
IN Brooklyn with Mr.. Hines. ia like
70 NJ with you, Sir. 4
why, you are quite q prodigyl How
old are your
Seventeen, sir.
lnow examined him more closely.
lie was 4 tall. shapciy, comedy, .inteili.
gent young man, with curly SIR hair.
and y look Of 'qnitc ready for any
thing about him.
.'iycll. what wages do you wantpf
Anything you like 10 give. mir. Dol
lar, two dollar. threcsloilar u month.
You find ont yorsef by-m' by what
worth. fPm no good, no money.
why, you are extraordinary. I'll
give you ten shillings 4 month. and we
shall see nfterward Eh2'
.'Aw-right, SIR
And upon those terms Dunlln, the
somnll boy, entered my service. For
several months | did not pay much
heed 10 him. There had been no coca.
| sion for any exhibition u superior abil.
! ity or courage.
One day now rifles were served to
company No /. They were taught
how TO manipulate them and how to
disconncct their parts. Finally tar
get was set up ut point blank range
and prize was offered to the best
shot, and In order TO show the Zanzi-
baris what good shooting was, Ave
European officers were requested 10
step forward and exhibit their skin.
Hnt, 70 my shame; not one white man
hit the target,
Dualln was called upon. Straight as
an arrow he stood d second and fred,
plugging the target near the center.
Az Stanley Pool an officer requested
the loan ~ our new steel barge that he
| might proceed mp river and visit his
friends at the next station
The steel boat pulled swelve oars,
and completely equipped and launched
on the Upper Congo had cost us about
eight hundred pounds. IL WINS lent
with an injunction that on his return
be should draw her up carefully on the
beach out of harms way and paddock
her chain. Tie lieutenant faithfully
| promised, went up the river, and, on
coming back. reported himself and as
sured me Of the security Of the boat.
The next morning the boat was need
ed for q special service. but she was
not on the beach and no one knew
what had become OF her.
The lieutenant was questioned. and
/ II was discovered that he had given or
ders for securing the boat, but had not
waited to see his orders carried out.
The crew, 1t then TRANSFERRED had sim
ply rowed her ashore, and each man
had sprung out and gone to HIS own
mess. II was then obvious to all Of us
that the surge from the Great cataract.
| which was but two miles below, had
entered the cove, lifted the boat clear
Of the strand, and receding towards the
terrible vortex had borne her away
with all her equipments aboard
Though II appeared hopeless that We
| should ever hear Of the boat again,
four several triplets Of messengers
were dispatched in as many directions
across the country to warn the natives
down the river and offer rewards for
her recovery, and set of with Dnalla
and another towardsthe Great cataract
of Kintamo, over the hill Of leopold
vile.
On reaching the summit overlooking
the cataract, Stretch, one Of the young
attendants, with his sharp eyes de-
tected the boat about midstrcam
stranded on a reef. the lower part Of
| which seemed TO hang over the edge OF
the roaring cataract. With my glass
could see her like tiny speck COM
4 pared u the mile-wide river Above
| the reef the puissant Congo was treaeh-
erously placid, but we, who lind So
often crossed ii two miles above the
station within view OF the gulf, had
often occasion 70 dread its terrible
velocity, and below the reef 1t was all
q scene Of remorseiess fury-a count
less series ~ tossing waves and sprayN
crowded crests, aad here and there
yeritable trwers which were no sooner
formed than they seemed to be swung
bodily into the air to be followed
this wild picture 81 tremendous strength
and lncoasGnt rage which the Great
cataract furnished at this view OF II.
One conld gaze at II for hours Tor It's
suggestion Of ceaseless passion, power
! Md Us awful ingulhngpess. wnil6 It.