How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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On The 5th, A Detachment Of Arabs And Slaves, Seven Hundred Strong,
Scoured The Surrounding Country, And Carried Fire And Devastation
Up To The Boma Of Wilyankuru.
On the 6th, Soud bin Sayd and about twenty other young Arabs led
a force of five hundred men against Wilyankuru itself, where it
was supposed Mirambo was living.
Another party went out towards
the low wooded hills, a short distance north of Zimbizo, near
which place they surprised a youthful forest thief asleep, whose
head they stretched backwards, and cut it off as though he were a
goat or a sheep. Another party sallied out southward, and defeated
a party of Mirambo's "bush-whackers," news of which came to our
ears at noon.
In the morning I had gone to Sayd bin Salim's tembe, to represent
to him how necessary it was to burn the long grass in the forest
of Zimbizo, lest it might hide any of the enemy; but soon
afterwards I had been struck down with another attack of
intermittent fever, and was obliged to turn in and cover myself
with blankets to produce perspiration; but not, however, till I
had ordered Shaw and Bombay not to permit any of my men to leave
the camp. But I was told soon afterwards by Selim that more than
one half had gone to the attack on Wilyankuru with Soud bin Sayd.
About 6 P.M. the entire camp of Zimbizo was electrified with the
news that all the Arabs who had accompanied Soud bin Sayd had
been killed; and that more than one-half of his party had been
slain.
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