The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-19

men to each on shore TO regulate the speed,
Stanley and five men staid in the boat.
Scarcely had she struck the rushing current
when the stern cable slackened, and the
barge was whirled around out of control of
her oarsmen. and one cableman was dragged
from his footing. The poor fellow clungto
the cable and was finally hauled on board
the Lady Alice, which was soon entirely
clear and flying at a terrible speed among
the powders which blocked the rivers
course. Oars were of no use except to
strengthen the helm. The natives were
completely unnamed when they saw how
powerless the white master and his magic
boat were when once fairly within the grasp
of the waters resistless force.
1--WE are lost Yes, we are lostr they
cried as Stanley shouted and gestured to
the rowers, Pull for your livesr The
current bore the craft along past bay
where the party had expected to land. Sud
denly a rumblng noise was heard and the
mound of a whirlpool began to form in the
pathway ahead. The boat was borne swift
/ ly to the summit, and as the waters began
/ to fall Stanley again spurred the rowers to
their best efforts. After narrow escapes
/ from collision with the rocks in the break
/ ers the craft was safely beached.
In her next adventure the Lady Alice
I met with serious disaster 1t happened
one day when Frank Pocock was leading
/ the fleet, he being unable to travel afoot,
and Stanley was plotting the land column.
! 1t was pocock's first effort in steering over
dangerous cataracts, and in spite of fire.
| uuent signals from Stanley, who on shore
never lost sight of his boat, she was sent
by "a huge wave crashing against rock
that stove hole in her stern. Luckily the
crew did not fall into panic, and by shouts
and gestures they were told how to get the
wounded craft ashore.
The break was mended as well as it could
be- but still it leaked, and when next it was
necessary to take to the river Stanley took
charge and left Pocock, who was crippled
by his disease, lying on shore. As soon as
native village said to be just ahead of the
party could be reached by boat Stanley was
to send back carriers to fetch his helpless
comrade. The Lady Alice had not travelled
} far when she came to a cataract and was
nearly drawn into n whirlpool. The great
strain of buifesng rough waters loosened
the fastenings of the recent patch, and the
7 barge nearly filled with water
BY desperate rowing she was beached,
: and Stanley sent a runner back to order the
! boatmen with Pocock to bring on his best
! canoe. While the time was passing Stan
ley entered into talk with the savages
who lived on the river banks and was max
= ing favorable terms with them when he
spied through his fieldglass dark object
tum bling about in the fierce waters of the
rapids. 1t was a canoe, with several dark
3 skinned forms clinging to its sides The
upturned canoe finally drifted into basin,
and the crew. after vain attempts to right
her, swan toward shore where Stanley
runners met them with lifelines. The de-
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look and was lost in the foaming rapids.
In "A few minutes runner from the beach
where the crew landed came flying along
the bluffs to tell Stanley the terrible news.
Eleven souls had embarked in the canoe
and three were lost.
Three are lost, and one of them is the
little master!' cried the runner, white
with horror.
1.-The little masterr" shouted Stanley
surely not the little mastery'
Yes, he is lost"
Frank Pocock was called the second OF
little master to distinguish him from tn,
chief. 1t appeared that when the cano,
was in the river with its crew on board thu
suffering man crawled to the brink ant
first begged to be taken along and theI
commanded the crew to receive him Wher
the frail bark came to grief in the torrent
he hadn't strength to help himself and wa
carried into the rapids.
The men lost that day increased Il
IA the number of victims to the torrents
of that violent river which Stanlel
soon afterward discovered by reaching
landmarks of explorers who had FOLLOWED
} the course from the sea upward to be tn
e Congo. On making that discovery tn
IS daring explorer abandoned the river bee
IF and crossed overland to the sea. The Lad,
Alice, no longer seaworthy after her jour
10 ney of 1000 miles in the African wilder
: ness, was left high and dry upon the rock
- above lnsougila cataract, a veteran wori
{. out in that brief but stormy career from
d March 8, 1875, to July 81, 1877.
ID GEORGE l.. KILMER.