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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Fair Women
Converted Into Demons, And Dragged By Ruffianly Soldiery Through
The Streets To Universal Execration And Pitiless Death; Children
Of tender age pinned to the earth and bayoneted; men innocent or
not, shot, cut, stabbed, slashed, destroyed - a whole
City given
up to the summa injuria of an infuriate, reckless, and brutal army!
Oh France! Oh Frenchmen! Such things are unknown even in the
heart of barbarous Central Africa. We spurned the newspapers with
our feet; and for relief to sickened hearts gazed on the comic side
of our world, as illustrated in the innocent pages of `Punch.'
Poor 'Punch!' good-hearted, kindly-natured `Punch!' a traveller's
benison on thee! Thy jokes were as physic; thy innocent satire
was provocative of hysteric mirth.
Our doors were crowded with curious natives, who looked with
indescribable wonder at the enormous sheets. I heard them repeat
the words, "Khabari Kisungu" - white man's news - often, and heard
them discussing the nature of such a quantity of news, and
expressing their belief that the "Wasungu" were "mbyah sana,"
and very "mkali;" by which they meant to say that the white men
were very wicked, and very smart and clever though the term
wicked is often employed to express high admiration.
On the fourth day from Ugunda, or the 18th of February, and the
fifty-third day from Ujiji, we made our appearance with flags
flying and guns firing in the valley of Kwihara, and when the
Doctor and myself passed through the portals of my old quarters
I formally welcomed him to Unyanyembe and to my house.
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