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 1st Of April, Rising Early, We Reached Myumi After A Four
Hours' March; Then Plunged Into The Jungle,
And, about 2 P.M.
arrived at a large ziwa, or pond, situate in the middle of a
jungle; and
On the next day, at 10 A.M., reached the fields of
Mapanga. We were passing the village of Mapanga to a resting-place
beyond the village, where we might breakfast and settle the honga,
when a lad rushed forward to meet us, and asked us where we were
going. Having received a reply that we were going to a
camping-place, he hastened on ahead, and presently we heard him
talking to some men in a field on our right.
In the meantime, we had found a comfortable shady place, and had
come to a halt; the men were reclining on the ground, or standing
up near their respective loads; Bombay was about opening a bale,
when we heard a great rush of men, and loud shouts, and,
immediately after, out rushed from the jungle near by a body of
forty or fifty armed men, who held their spears above their
heads, or were about to draw their bows, with a chief at their
head, all uttering such howls of rage as only savages can, which
sounded like a long-drawn "Hhaat-uh - Hhaat-uhh-uhh," which meant,
unmistakably, "You will, will you? No, you will not!" - at once
determined, defiant, and menacing.
I had suspected that the voices I heard boded no good to us,
and I had accordingly prepared my weapons and cartridges.
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