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Places and Historical Subject Matter Discussed/Illustrated in this Book (See Full Contents Below): Henry Morton Stanley Africa African Safari Jungle Expedition Explorer Exploration Hunting Big Game Savages Native Negro Tribes Slavery Slave Trade Wild Animals Maneaters Dark Continent Doctor David Livingstone Emin Pasha Bey Lion Hippopotamus Ugogo Victoria War Villages Pygmy Congo Cannibal Cannibalism Cape Town Witchcraft Witch White Nile British Colonialism
H. M. STANLEY’S WONDERFUL ADVENTURES IN AFRICA. From His First Entrance into the Dark Continent in Search of Livingstone to his Last Triumphant Return from His Search for and Rescue of Emin Bey. Twenty Years of the Most Wonderful Adventures the World Has Known. The Most Complete, Authentic and Thrilling Recital Yet Issued of All His Noble, Daring, Marvellous Adventures, Grand Discoveries, and Signal Triumphs in Opening Up a Vast Continent of Untold Wealth to the Civilized World. Prepared From Stanley’s Own Fragmentary Writings by Literary Men of Eminent Ability and High Reputation As Graphic Writers. By Hon. J.T. Headley and Willis Fletcher Johnson. © 1890 Published by the Excelsior Publishing Co. 9” x 6” decorated cloth hardcover. “Richly illustrated” with color plates and black and white illustrations. 802 pages.
Condition: GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Exterior as shown in photo with some wear at corners and spine ends, darkening of cloth, etc. Front inner hinge cracked but apparently reglued, holding well. Text block firm and secure. Text is clean and complete. No torn, loose or missing pages. Plates and map look great.Description:
This is a richly detailed and beautifully illustrated chronicle of the exploits and explorations of the African adventurer, Henry Morton Stanley. It traces Stanley’s activities for twenty years on the Dark Continent, from the time he was dispatched by the New York Herald to go in search of Dr. David Livingstone, to his famous rescue of the Emin Pasha. The authors promise that it is “the most complete, authentic and thrilling recital yet issued of all of Stanley’s noble, daring, marvelous adventures.”
Stanley is without question the most famous African explorer of the 19th century, but he is also the most controversial due to his alleged cruelties to African natives. Sir Richard Francis Burton once said “Stanley shoots negroes as if they were monkeys …” Indeed, this book is unusual in the sense that it actually depicts Stanley in the act of shooting an unarmed African native – in full color, no less (see photos below).
This handsome volume is a whopping 802 pages in length and is illustrated with numerous full-page illustrations, including several plates in full-color. It also includes a beautiful 16” x 15” foldout color map of Africa in 1890.
CONTENTS ARE:
CHAPTER ONE: How republican institutions develop character * Webster, Clay, Lincoln, Grant and Stanley * The latter a native of Wales * Educated in a poor-house * Becomes a teacher * Ships as a cabin-boy to New Orleans * Adopted by a merchant and takes his name * Lives in the Arkansas forest * Given up as dead by his adopted father * Returns on board a Mississippi flat-boat * Death of his father without making a will * Life with the miners and Indians * Enters the Confederate army * Is taken prisoner * Enlists in the United States navy * Goes to join the Cretans to fight against Turkey * Robbed by brigands * Travels * Visits his native place * Gives the children of the poor-house a dinner * Makes an address * Herald correspondent in the war between England and Abyssinia * Beats the governmental messenger * Sent to Spain as War correspondent * Receives a startling telegram from Mr. Bennett to come to Paris * Hasty departure * Affectionate parting with children * Singular interview with Mr. Bennett * Accepts the leadership of an expedition to find Livingstone * His peculiar fitness for the undertaking * His remarkable qualities as exhibited in this and in his last march across Africa
CHAPTER TWO: The Dark Continent" * Description of it * Difficulties of exploring it * Hatred of white men * The first real encroachment made by a missionary * Description of the portion to be explored * Its articles of commerce * Its future destiny
CHAPTER THREE: Outlines of Livingstone's explorations during a period of nearly thirty years * First exploration * Crosses the continent from west to east * His second expedition * The last * His supposed death * Sympathy for him * Indifference of the British Government to his fate * Bennett's bold resolution to send Stanley after him
CHAPTER FOUR: Stanley's search for Livingstone * Lands at Zanzibar * Organizes his expedition * The start * Stanley's feelings * The march * Its difficulties * Men sick * Delays * Meeting with a chief * Dialogue on the burial of a horse * Loss of his bay horse * Sickness and desertion * Terrible traveling * A hospitable chief * A gang of slaves * African belles * A ludicrous spectacle * A queer superstition * Punishment of a deserter * A ludicrous contrast * A beautiful country * News from Livingstone * A walled town * Stanley attacked with fever
CHAPTER FIVE: The rainy season sets in * Disgusting insects * The cook caught stealing * His punishment and flight * The march * Men dispatched after the missing cook * Their harsh treatment by the sultana of the walled town * A hard march * Crossing the Makata river * The rainy season ended * Five miles of wading * An enchanting prospect * Beaches his third caravan, and finds it demoralized * Shaw, its leader, a drunken spendthrift * Delays the march * Stanley's dispatch to him * Lake, Ugombo * Scene between Stanley and Shaw at breakfast, the latter knocked down * Attempt to murder Stanley * Good advice of an Arab sheikh * A feast * Farquhar left behind
CHAPTER SIX: Three of his caravans meet * A waterless desert traversed * Stanley down with the fever * A land of plenty and of extortion * A populous district * modern Hercules * An African village * Stanley curbs his temper for economy's sake * A good sultan * News from one of his caravans * Curious natives * Flogged by Stanley into proper behavior * Salt plains * Stanley stops to doctor himself * A curious visit from a chief * A noble African tribe * A mob * Neetmok again * Quarrel over the route to be taken * Settled by Stanley * A merry march * Condensation of Stanley's account of the character of the country and the tribes of Central Africa
CHAPTER SEVEN: Reception in Unyanyembe * His house * Reports of the Chiefs of his caravans * A feast * Luxurious living of the Arabs * Arab country * War against Mirambo, in which Stanley becomes an ally * Is taken sick * Bombay thrashed * Stanley joins the Arab army * Capture of Mirambo's stronghold * Villages laid waste * Mirambo's revenge * Arabs defeated and Stanley left alone * Is sick * Final departure * His indomitable will and courage * A touching extract form his journal * Deserters * Shaw, the last white man, left behind * Corpses on the road * Mollifies a sullen chief * Strong medicine * A ludicrous scene * The paradise of hunters * A right royal hunt
CHAPTER EIGHT: A beautiful picture * A mutiny * Narrow escape of Stanley * Saved by his prompt courage * Swift punishment of the leaders of the mutiny * Exciting news from Ujiji * Difficulties in the way * Resolves to go round the next village * Stealthy marching * A new danger * Vain attempt to stop a woman's screaming * Rapid marching * Stanley startled by the sound of waves bursting in rocky caverns * An unexpected danger * Narrow escape * The end approaches * Hurrah
CHAPTER NINE: View of the Tanganika * First sight of Ujiji * The American Flag * Livingstone's servants * Dr. Livingstone, I presume * The meeting * Livingstone's letter bag * A budget of new"s * Bringing new life * The cook's excitement * Livingstone's deplorable condition * The dream realized
CHAPTER TEN: Rest at Ujija * Stanley's love for Livingstone the best eulogium on his own character * The night * The morning interview * Life with Livingstone * Survey the Tanganika together * Livingstone accompanies Stanley to Unyanyembe * The long march * Life in the place * Preparations for parting * The last breakfast * The last sad farewell - Stanley's homeward march * Its perils * Inundations * Makata Swamp * Terrible marching * Stanley sends off for relief * Its arrival * Bagomayo reached at last * Noisy entrance * Stanley's joy * It is suddenly dashed * Cruel conduct of the press * Start for home
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Expedition of the Khedive of Egypt to suppress the slave trade * Sir Samuel W. Baker placed at the head of it * Extent of the slave trade * Outfit of the expedition * Preparations on a grand scale * The army * The rendezvous at Khartoum * Failure on the part of the Khedive * The expedition starts * Obstacles met * Cutting channels for the fleet * Slow, toilsome work * A hippopotamus charges the vessel * Men become sick * Baker shoots a hippopotamus * A crocodile killed * The expedition permanently stopped * Discouragements
CHAPTER TWELVE: Baker's heroic wife * A slaver caught * A sickening spectacle * Freedom * Description of the camp * A cargo of slaves discovered * Slaves freed * Wholesale matrimony * Exploring the White Nile * A new start * A new lake * The White Nile reached at last * A fierce night attack by a hippopotamus * A thrilling scene * Gondokoro at last reached
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The country formally taken possession of * War at last * A night attack on a native village * Disaffection in the army * Attacked by crocodiles * An old man-eater killed * A campaign against the enemy * The army propose to return home * Baker obtains corn and restores subordination * The army greatly reduced * A fight * Target shooting at men
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Vessels leave for Khartoum with the invalids * Abdullah's villainy * Exploring the White Nile * Meeting a friendly tribe * Interview with the Sheik * Sorcery and Talismans * Magic * An elephant hunt * Its moral effects * Scramble for the flesh * The tribes seek peace * Elephants enter the fort * A wild scene * Elephants gathering fruit * An adventure with a hippopotamus * The country at peace * Baker resolves to start south
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The determination to advance * A desperate position * Soldiers draw the carts to Lahore * A beautiful country * The future capital of Africa * Reaches Fatiko * Power of music over the natives * Grotesque dancing of naked women * Starts for Unyoro * Beautiful country depopulated * Proclaims peace * Livingstone
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The start * Exodus of the white ants * A great luxury * A beautiful country * Masindi * King Abba Rega * His walk and appearance * The interview * Buffoons * Queer result of a lecture on the slave trade * A station commenced * Planting vegetables * The king's visit * Doherty’s description * Magnetic battery * Photographs * A curious interview * Formal annexation of the country * Sends off a part of his force * Commerce established * Vegetables planted * Dark omens * A drunken king * Asks after Livingstone * A fort built
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The troops poisoned * A sudden attack * The town set on fire * A sad spectacle * Baker discouraged * A perilous position * Fears of Abdullah * Hypocrisy of Abba Eega * Presents pass between him and Baker * Treachery * A narrow escape * Baker's quarters set on fire * A second attack * The neighboring villages set on fire * Forethought of Baker's wife * Preparations to start for Rionga
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The start * The station fired * The march * The country aroused * An ambuscade * Howarte speared * Second day's march * A sharp fight * Stripped for the race * Constant fighting * Eating the enemy's liver * Foweera at last reached * Interview with the king * His appearance * Baker offers to make him ruler over the territory of Abba Rega * A treaty made * Sealed by drinking each others' blood * Baker resolves to return to Fatiko * Arrival of messengers with bad naws * The return * The wife compelled to walk * Arrival at Fatiko * Treachery * The attack * Flight and pursuit * The victory * Baker turns surgeon
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Arrival of Cannibals * Children devoured * Small-pox disperses them * A grand hunt * The mode of conducting it by nets and fire * The result * Life at Fatiko * The second hunt * Killing a lion * A woman's rights meeting * A happy community, in which neither religious dogmas or law cases enter * News from Livingstone * King Mtesa * Arrival of reinforcements * Bad military conduct * Baker writes out a set of rules for Abdullah and starts for home * Releases captive women and children * An expression of gratitude not asked for * Kissed by a naked beauty * Concluding remarks * A missionary's outfit * Official report * A handsome tribute to his wife * Africa's future
CHAPTER TWENTY: Cameron's expedition * Its origin * Change of leaders * Difficulties at the outset * Start * A tall and manly race * Naked savages * News from Livingstone * A methuselah * The country improved * Unyanyembo reached * Occupies Stanley's house * A slave auction * Sickness and discouragements * A stunning blow * Livingstone dead * Death of Dillon * Despondent thoughts * A desperate resolve * Crossing the Lugungwa * Ujiji
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Cameron pushes on to the Lualaba, and resolves to follow it to the sea * It has no connection with the Nile System * No canoes to be had * Tipo-Tipo * Handsome women * Inquisitiveness of the women * Stopped by a ruse * Interview with King Kasongo * Resolves to visit some curious lakes * Attacked by the natives * Contracts with a slave-trader to take him to the coast * Explorations of lakes * Houses built in the lakes * Description of Kasongo and his character and habits * His harem * The rules that govern it * The religion of the country * A curious bridal ceremony * Floating islands * The Congo route abandoned
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: The departure * Character of the caravan * Horible ceremonies at the burial of a chief of Urua * Start of the caravan * Its bad conduct * Joined by a slave-gang * Its sorrowful appearance * The camps of the caravan * Dreary marching * Appearance of the country * Naked women dressing their hair elaborately * Arrival at Alvez village * The luxury of coffee, onions and soap * Reduced state of Cameron's men * Reaches a Portuguese trader's house * A festival * A lascivious dance * Beautiful scenery * Interview with King Kongo * Cameron's sufferings begin * Desperate condition * A forced march to the sea with a few men * First sight of the sea * His welcome * His dangerous sickness * Visit to the consul at Loanda * Men sent to Zanzibar * His return home * The slave trade
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Stanley thinks of Africa and Livingstone's unfinished work * Determines to complete it * Takes a boat of his own along * At Zanzibar again * Starts for the interior * Takes a new route * The country passed through * Deserted by his guides * Loses the path * A painful march * Starvation and death * A gloomy prospect * Two young lions killed and made into broth * A trunk used for a kettle * A painful spectacle * Men sent off for food at abcxs last return * Joy of the camp * The march * A new type of natives * Naked beauty * Sickness and death * Death of Edward Pocoke * His burial * Stanley's letter to his father * A man murdered * Itwru reached * A populous plain * Intercourse with the people * A magic doctor
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: The camp * View from it * Hostile demonstration * A three days' fight * A massacre * A modern Sodom * A terrible vengeance * Twenty-one of the expedition killed * A complete ruin * Provisions obtained * The march resumed * Only a hundred and ninety-four men left out of three hundred with which he started * A gloomy outlook * Mistaken for Mirambo * The Nyanza reached at last * A description of the country he had passed through
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Mustering his force * The death roll * Selecting a crew of eleven men, he sets sail * Leaves the camp in charge of Pocoke and Barker * "Speke's Bay " * Coasting northward * Shimeeyu Biver * A large island * Description of the shores and people * Strange stories told him * A lonely channel * Superstition of the natives * “Bridge Island" * Under the equator * Stanley looked upon as a being from another world * Fleeing from hippopotami * Treachery * A narrow escape * Three quarters of the lake thoroughly explored
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Stanley the first white man that ever sailed round the Victoria Nyanza * Establishes the southern source of the Nile * Treachery of the natives * Stanley's revenge * A hostile fleet scattered by him * Three men killed * Two singular islands * The Ripon Falls * The Nile * Curious inlets * Mtesa, king of Uganda * His reception of Stanley * Imposing ceremonies * A noble native monarch * His capital * His army and large territory * Half converted to Christianity by Stanley * Anxious to have missionaries sent to his country * Stanley's mode of sending them, and the kind of men they should be * A mission established and broken up * False statements in the papers about it corrected
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Stanley continues his explorations * Drunken natives * A suspicious reception * A peaceful night * A wild waking up * A startling spectacle * Hurried departure * Magassa's fleet * Lack of food * A fearful storm * Bum- bireh Island * A bright prospect * Stanley entrapped * In deadly peril * A crowd of demons * A fearful night * Prompt action * Barely saved * Swift and terrible revenge * A frightful storm * Refuge Island * A grateful camp * Provision secured * Another storm * A staunch boat * Steering for camp * His joyful greeting * Excitement of the men * The secret of the men's affection for him
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: The work accomplished * Feelings of satisfaction * Pocoke's report * A narrow escape for the expedition * Death of Barker * Sweet repose * Pleasant memories * Future anticipations * Waiting for Magassa * Resolves to return to Uganda by land * Is prevented * Sends to the king of Ukerewe * His request granted * Visits him * The interview * Royal hospitality * A stratagem * Stanley starts for Uganda * A new camp * Return to the old one * Conspirators foiled * Refuge Island
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: A rest * Resolves to punish the Bumbireh * Sets sail * Message to the people of Bumbireh * Imprisons the king of Iroba * The king of Bumbireh in chains * Arrival of Mtesa's canoes * Hostility of the natives * Moves on Bumbireh * The savages expecting him * Plan of battle * The battle * Killed and wounded * Rejoicing over the victory * The natives completely subdued * Stanley gives them a lecture * Effect of the victory on the neighboring tribes * His losses * Prepares to start for the Albert Nyanza * Size of the Victoria Nyanza * Mnta Nzinge * Is it and the Albert one lake * Stanley's journal and map do not agree * Mtesa at war * Stanley aids him * Uganda * Abba Rega once more * Baker's and Stanley's journal agree * Stanley asks for fifty thousand men * Mtesa gives him two thousand
CHAPTER THIRTY: Force of the expedition * Its start * First march * Through hostile Unyoro * The encampment * Mount Gambaragara * Its summit occupied by white people * Live on a rock in the middle of a lake * Their origin * Other strange tribes * The march * Frightened people * The lake reached without opposition * A miserable failure * The reason of it * Stanley's feelings * The return * Report to Mtesa * His wrath * Liberal offers * Wonders of the country * A generous, peaceful king * Lake Windomere * Source of the Nile * Absurd theories * The hot springs of Mtagata
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Back to Ujiji * Pleasant associations * The mystery of Tanganika * No outlet * Cameron's expedition * Thinks he discovers the outlet * Doubts of Stanley * The lake constantly rising * Stanley starts to examine for himself * Bags two zebras * A whole village massacred * Reaches Cameron's outlet * Explores it thoroughly * Declares Cameron to be mistaken * The future outlet * Livingstone's influence * The small pox in camp * Desertion of his men * Prompt measures * Crosses the Tanganika * More desertions * People of Manyema * Singular customs
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: Livingstone at Nyangwe * Remembrance of him by the natives * “The good man" * His troubles here awakens Stanley's pity * A magnificent country * Glowing description of it * Ruined by slavery * The slave trade * Its character * Ebony skeletons * Horrible sights * The traders * Mode of capture * Faithlessness of the Prince of Zanzibar * Extracts from Stanley's journal * A depopulated country * The way to stop the traffic
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: Stanley meets Tipo-tipo, the friend of Cameron * Learns all about Cameron's movements * Stanley warned not to go on * Fearful stories * Contracts with Tipo-tipo to escort him sixty camps * Self-reliance of Stanley * Women an obstacle in the way of advancing * Nyangwe * Its market * A lively scene * The two chiefs * A large harem * The original inhabitants * Strength of the expedition
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: The great march begins * Gloomy prospects * March through a dense forest * Axes used to clear the way * A village in the forest * Superiority of the inhabitants * The men disheartened * Slow marching * Discontent * Difficulties increase * Tipo-tipo wishes to be released from his engagement * People that smelt iron-ore * A row of skulls as an ornament for the village * Hunting sokos * The cannibals * Naked women * The Lualaba reached * Not to be left again * The natives crossing the river
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: Congo changed to Livingstone * Frightened natives * The march * Deserted villages * The land party lost * Stanley's anxiety * A dash on the natives, one man killed * Uledi dispatched after the missing party * The lost found * The march * A floating hospital * Passing rapids * Tipo-tipo wishes to turn back * A queer village * Increasing sickness * The dead every day thrown into the river * A fight * Marching on * A desperate fight of two days * A successful stratagem * Tipo-tipo resolves to leave * Stanley's speech to his men * Christmas day * A frolic * A boat race * The parties separate * A touching farewell * A sad day * Stanley tries to arouse the men
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: A common fate binding all * "We want to eat you" * The home of the hippopotamus * The persuasive eloquence of the cannibal prisoners * A novel sensation * A peaceful tribe * The cannibals prevent a fight * A sudden attack * A successful stratagem * Another fight * A hard carry around the falls * An advanced tribe * River full of islands * Magnificent scenery * Stanley's expedition * A grand barbecue * A necessary fight * Night-work * Seventy-eight hours' incessant toil * Passing the rapids * A lost man * A thrilling spectacle * Ureat daring * Lost men * A fearful night * Rescue in the morning * Brave Uledi * A carry round the falls * A brilliant manoeuvre * In a net * Man meat * Another fight * The Congo starts for the sea * Another fight * A deserted village * Around the falls * Muskets * A fight * Home of the hippopotami * A new war-cry * Astonishment of the natives at seeing a white man * More enemies * Stanley's speech * A fight * Three hundred and fifteen muskets against forty-four * Starving * Friendly savages * Abundant provisions * Death and burial of a chieftain's wife * A friendly tribe * Beautiful women * Serpents in camp * The last and fiercest fight * Stanley Pool * Friendly chiefs * Curious interview with King Itsi * A general peace
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: Tribal differences * What is the cause of them * The Congo tribes * The cannibals left behind * Change of scenery * Livingstone Falls * A wild stretch of water * Carrying boats over land * Exhausting, slow work * A canoe lost * Stanley falls thirty feet * Rocky Falls * A fearful sight * Kalulu over the falls * A canoe shoots the Kalulu Falls in Bafety * A third canoe shoots the falls and disappears * Soudi's strange story * More rapids * Difficulties increase * Narrow escape of Stanley * Joy at his deliverance * Four cataracts in sight * Strange music * Less than a mile a day * The big cataract * Scaling a mountain one thousand feet high * Astonishment of the natives
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: Last instructions * A magnificent forest * Stanley thinks of dug-outs at home * Resolves to build canoes * The first tree felled * Two canoes finished * The boats and expedition moving overland * Arabs stealing * Redeeming a captive held for theft * Canoes over the mountain * Rest * Third canoe built * Dispiriting news * Native superstition * A narrow escape * Launching of the third canoe * Rains * Rise of the river * Storms * The expedition moves over the mountain * Frank takes the canoes by the river * Mowwa Falls * A terrific scene * Passing the Mowwa Falls * Uledi caught in theft * His sentence * A touching scene * Atonement * Forgiveness * Christian principles in Heathens * A strange superstition * The natives demand that Stanley's note-book be burned up * A painful dilemma * A successful stratagem * Shakespeare burned * Frank's last night with Stanley
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: Elevated from the place of servant to that of friend * Proposes to toss up to determine whether they shall follow the Lualaba to the sea or not * Chance decides they shall * Pocoke's shoes become worn out in the forest * Is made lame * Passage of the Mowwa Falls * Stanley's peril * Pocoke's fatal self-will * His death * The sight that stunned Stanley * A gloomy night for him * Pocoke's character
CHAPTER FORTY: Stanley mourning for his friend * A mutiny * Sadness of Stanley * Return of the deserters * Boats carried over a hill * The chief carpenter carried over the falls * Stanley runs the Mbelo Falls * Miraculous escape * Feeling of his people * The end of the chasm * One mile and a quarter a day for eight months * The Arabs steal, and are made prisoners * Arabs left in slavery for stealing * Falls of Isingila reached * Stanley resolves to leave the river * The Lady Alice abandoned * The march for Boma * Uledi slaps a king in the face * Stanley sends a letter to Boma * The messengers depart * He moves on * Meets an enemy who becomes a friend * A glad surprise * Food in abundance * Luxuries for Stanley * A song of triumph * Stanley's feelings, as shown by his letter * Reach Boma * The reaction * Stanley offered a steamer home * Prefers to stand by his Arabs * Reception at Cape Town * Zanzibar reached * Joy of the Arabs * An affecting scene * Farewell to Stanley
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: Securing the fruits of victory * Summoned to Brussels by King Leopold * Graphic description of the resources and needs of the country * A company formed and an expedition organized * Arrival at Banana * A cranky lot of steamboats * Ascending the river * Mussuko the first station * Left to their own resources * Bargaining with the natives
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO: Vivi, the second station, paid for with too high a price * Planning for a city * Building roads and conveying steamboats overland around the cataracts * Leopoldville and Stanley pool * Friendliness of the natives * Slave traders * Civilization of a bloodthirsty chief
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE: Location of villages along the river * How the huts are built * Furniture * An abundance of idols * Protection against crocodiles * The white man's powerful fetish * Conceptions of the deity * King Nrisundi's court * A royal reply and a royal gift * Forcible purchase * Shrewd negro bargainers * Occupations of the natives * Fishing and hunting * Dangerous sport with the hippopotamus
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR: Organizing a Government for the new State * The Berlin Congress * Modern improvements introduced into the wilderness * Area of the Congo State * Its lakes and rivers * Length and volume of the Congo river * The scenery along its shores * Peculiar effect of African sunshine * Population of the free State * The climate * Comparison with the Mississippi Valley * Natural resources
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE: Another call to duty * The history of Emin Pasha * Mr. Gladstone's infamous desertion of the Soudan * Emin's faithfulness * Civilizing the equatorial province * Notes on life in mid-Africa * Sublimity of the forests * Home manufactures in a state of siege * Compulsory temperance * Trusting in God after man had abandoned him to his fate
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX: Back to the dark continent * An expedition to save life, not to destroy * Farewell chat at Cairo * The Nile as a highway of commerce * How the Nile might easily be dried up * Preparations at Zanzibar * Up the Congo again * Plunging into the wilderness * Conflicting rumors * Osmin Digma's monumental lie * Disasters on the Congo * Mr. Joseph Thomson's gloomy forebodings
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN: Stanley reaches Emin * His story of the journey * Molested at the start * A terrific march * Heavy losses * Men corrupted by the Arabs * Naked and starving * A land of desolation * Punishing mutineers * Out of the woods * First view of the promised land * More enemies * A parley * Fighting their way * On the shore of Albert Nyanza at last * Doubtful friends * Marching back for help and supplies
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT: Stanley prostrated with fever * Among friends * A letter from Emin * On the Nyanza * Meeting with Emin * Back through the wilderness * Learning of disasters * A meagre wardrobe * The great equatorial forests * A nameless mountain * Discussing Emin's condition * Emin's determination to stick to the post of duty
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE: The misfortunes of the expedition due to the jungles * The forests through which Livingstone struggled * Mr. Stanley's description of the boundless woods * Horrors of the march * Emerging into the sunshine * Feasting in a land of plenty * Scenes in the villages * Geographical results of the expedition * The Aruwimi * A snow-capped mountain at the equator * The lakes * Cannibals * Mr. Stanley's future work and fame
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