Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-10

uppedlci strongly TO my sympathy. Al
work, you may be as severe as you please
you may fiog him when he docs wrong
SO long IA when work II done you relaS
and gossip and talk TO him. You listen
to his story about his wife. or mother, Of
sister; about his home and little plot OF
land in far distant Zanzibar. In fact
you must make him feel that though you
Will compel him to do his full share OF
work, you are ready to sympathize with
! him and help him In his troubles. and
mako him feel that you are his friend.
II you do this. he will slave for you and
follow You with unreasonlng dog-like
| fidelity. | have often seen Zanzlbnrl.
who has laid himself open 10 punish-
ment. lie down at ones bidding and take
| his fifteen or twenty strokes OF the cane
without n word, and. after he has re-
ceived them. get up, and raising his
hands above his head. oxclnim, Hand
el-Allahr'-Thank Godl BY this he
means he has done wrong. he has re-
ceived his punishment. and now he and
the world are even. II punished Justly
/ he never hears malice. but Injustice or
cruelty win transform him into n sullen,
mutinous devil. with whom nothing can
/ be done.
People. when they nrst go 10 Africa.
naturally look at things from a civilized
| point OF view. which, by the way. is not
always the right view, and are not able
to understand the strange workings Of an
Africans mind But II they endeayor ever
so little 10 put themselves in their place.
they Will soon understand how to deal
with the Africans. how TO gain their re-
spect and affection, and how to make
them work for them with a fidelity al
most unknown among civilized people.
our leader, MIR. Stanley, possessed this
faculty In a very large degree, and In II
lies the secret OF much OF his success. II
was partly through his teaching, and
partly from our own feelings Of genuine
sympathy and liking for our men. that we
OF the advanced column worked with our
own men In perfect accord; and had we
not learned the way Of dealing with them
we could never have held them together
during those fearful days OF our march
through the forest Every step we now
took was slow and painful, owing to our
weakness and exhaustion. and at every
effort we made to Chamber over rocks or
fallen trees. we broke out into a cold per.
splratlon from sheer weakness. on Oct
10 we were almos, at our last gasp. and
there seemed nothing but death before us.
We had, however, one poor, old. diseased
donkey, belonging to Mr. Stanley.
II had never been able to carry any
thing, but we kept II from feelings Of
sentment--tho rest had long since died.
So We killed poor old Mirambo and III
ylded him amongst our men, We We're
enabled TO give each man about half a
pound Of Its meat, which they scarcely
wulttu % COOK 50 tainlAhed h'd they now
become we omeers had Tor our share
~, u pN OF thg alnd leg anu me tongue,
ms We niue mo soup lhe meat was
not hai plH' ana we devourei II ca
stlIy' thoush must say u was DIT
."ush unu queer 10 INC taste' rue mon
wore 50 huasgy mat they Fought Tor the
ohtrnlls ana cleared on every Vestige OF
theih' IN ihet' may gay, we ate that
donkey from us Eefe TO the Up OF It's
tull. Next day we struck camp and
weary HIugHled on nut II was terrible
10 MINK mat day after dag we were
murnnihs iurther ana turthcr from poor
Nelsoi' whose chances OF being rescued
We're houfly growing less and less, on
OCT; ID we at last came upon the slave
raider kilouga-lunga's camp, Ia which
we stayed ten days The siavcrs refused
10 give US anything To eat unless we
phd Tor IL; ana we had nothing In tho
shape OF money, owing 10 our having lost
our cloth beads brass wire, etc, by the
oVeftprnlng OF one Of our canoes at
Panga' We turned out our boxes and
bags to try 10 tempt tho slave raiders to
eve us food for their contcuts-such
rug fair ns II was. We were soon In the
hunllintlng position Of trying. like shop
men, to expose our wares 10 the best adj
vantage. stnlra would be holding up
rcd ilannol cholefa-helt before some fat,
wel-tri Manyema slave, hoping that It's
brightness might tempt him 10 buy II for