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Title: A visit to Stanley's rear-guard at Major Barttelot's camp on the Aruhwimi with an account of the river-life on the Congo
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Werner, J.R
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904 Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel Congo River -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh W. Blackwood
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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, which must have given him terrible pain. Ithen cleaned his wounds, and dressed them withoil. So much for the burning ; now for the result.A few days later we came to Oreras native village ;and the inhabitants, seeing him lying in the bowof the steamer—his black skin piebald from thescalding he had received—wanted to buy him ofCaptain Coquilhat for culinary purposes, on theplea that he was fine and fat, nearly dead, andalready half-cooked ! Ever since we left Bangala, Captain Coquilhathad been getting worse instead of better. Hecould eat nothing but a little soup, and I beganto fear he would not be able to hold out till wereached Kinsi Katini.^ As we approached theFalls, we discovered plenty of traces of the slave-raiders —whole villages burned to the ground, andthe natives living in canoes, hidden along thewooded banks or on the islands in the river,besides the tales told us everywhere of thecruelty of the Arabs—tales of wanton murder, 1 The Zanzibar! name for Stanley Falls.
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1 NEAEING STANLEY FALLS. 107 and women and children floo;o;ed to death in sheerbrutality. Soon after passing the Lomami we came on anArab camp at Yaporo, and were saluted with ashower of shot; but as we were quite out of range,it took no effect, and being in haste to reach theFalls, we reserved our reply for a future occasion,and passed on. Next day we passed several vil-lages, but the natives were shy and frightened,and would not sell us food. At last, having passedall the islands, and reached a part of the Congowhere it ran between high banks in one unitedstream, we came to Yarukombe. Right opposite,on the south bank, is another village called Ya-tuka. As the natives of Yarukombe seemed dis-posed to be friendly, Captain Coquilhat stoppedhere, and made the chief a large present. Aboutthree hours after leaving this place, when passingChioba island, we suddenly struck a rock right inthe centre of the channel, but did no damage be-yond a slight dent in one of the bow-plates of thewhale-

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