Identifier: explorationsadve00wils (find matches)
Title: Explorations and adventures in the wilds of Africa;
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, James Russell
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Publisher: (Philadelphia?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e thought that it would beimpossible for them to pass through the wilderness depending only onSpeke and Grants guns for their support. Still Speke resolved to push on, and most of the men who had desertedcame back. To keep up discipline, one of the porters, who had stolenseventy-three yards of cloth, which was found in his kit, received threedozen lashes, and, being found to be a murderer and a bad character, hewas turned out of camp. They spent New Years Day at Round Rock, a village occupied by afew Wakimbu, who, by their qi/et and domestic manners, made themfeel that they were out of the forest. Provisions were now obtained bysending men to distant villages; but they were able to supply the campwith their guns, killing rhinoceros, wild boar, antelope and zebra. In January they entered Unyamuezi, or the country of the moontinferior in size to England, but cut up into numerous petty states. Thename is abbreviated to Weezee. Next day they reached Caze, where Speke had remained long on a
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140 TWO CELEBRATED EXPLORERS. 141 former visit. His old friend, Musa, came out to meet: them, and escortedthem to his tembe, or house, where he invited them to reside till hecould find porters to carry their property to Karague, promising to gothere with them himself. They found here also Sheikh Snay, who withother Arab merchants, came at once to call on them. Snay told himthat he had an army of four hundred slaves prepared to march againstthe chief, Manua Sera, who was constantly attacking and robbing theircaravans. Speke advised him not to make the attempt, as he was likelyio get the worst of it. The other Arab merchant agreed that a treaty ofpeace would be better than fighting. Musa gave him much information about the journey northward, andpromised to supply him with sixty porters from his slave establishment,by which arrangement Speke would have a hundred armed men to formhis escort. Musa loudly praised Rumanika, the King of Karague,through whose dominions the expedition was to pa

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