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 This Morning, Daunted By The Reports
Of The Dangers Ahead, Abdul Kader Craved To Be Discharged.
He
vowed he was sick, and unable to proceed any further.
As I was
pretty well tired of him, I paid him off in cloth, and permitted
him to go.
About half way to Kasegera Mabruk Saleem was suddenly taken sick.
I treated him with a grain of calomel, and a couple of ounces of
brandy. As he was unable to walk, I furnished him with a donkey.
Another man named Zaidi was ill with a rheumatic fever; and Shaw
tumbled twice off the animal he was riding, and required an
infinite amount of coaxing to mount again. Verily, my expedition
was pursued by adverse fortunes, and it seemed as if the Fates had
determined upon our return. It really appeared as if everything
was going to wreck and ruin. If I were only fifteen days from
Unyanyembe, thought I, I should be saved!
Kasegera was a scene of rejoicing the afternoon and evening of our
arrival. Absentees had just returned from the coast, and the
youths were brave in their gaudy bedizenment, their new barsatis,
their soharis, and long cloths of bright new kaniki, with which
they had adorned themselves behind some bush before they had
suddenly appeared dressed in all this finery. The women "Hi-hi'ed"
like maenads, and the "Lu-lu-lu'ing" was loud, frequent, and
fervent the whole of that afternoon. Sylphlike damsels looked up
to the youthful heroes with intensest admiration on their
features; old women coddled and fondled them; staff-using,
stooping-backed patriarchs blessed them.
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