The Boy Travellers On the Congo : Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey With Henry M. Stanley, "through the Dark Continent"
The Boy Travellers On the Congo : Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey With Henry M. Stanley, "through the Dark Continent"
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
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destroyed, despite their protestations to the contrary. I could afford to lose weak, fearful, and unworthy men ; but I could not afford to lose one gun. Though we had such a show of strength left, I was only too conscious that there were barely forty reliable and effective in a crisis, or in the presence of danger ; the rest were merely useful as bearers of burdens, or porters. " When we resumed our journey the second day from Ukaranga, three more were missing, which swelled the number of deser...tions to forty-one, and reduced our force to one hundred and twenty-nine. After we had crossed the Tanganika and arrived in Uguha, two more disappeared, one of whom was young Kalulu, whom I had taken to England and the United States, and whom I had placed in an English school for eighteen months. " Induced to do so by the hope that I should secure their attachment to the cause of the expedition, I had purchased from Sultan bin Kassim six bales of cloth at an enormous price, £350, and had distributed them all among the people gratuitously.
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