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Title: Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ..
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Kelsey, D. M., (from old catalog) comp
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Publisher: St. Louis and Philadelphia, Scammel & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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r false start. For the first time in hislife his feet failed him; and learning that the Lualaba took agreat bend to the west-south-west, he gave up the quest, andlimped back to Bambarre with his three faithful servants.Fairly baffled by the difficulties in his way, and sorely troubledby the demoralized state of his men, who had been seduced bythe Arabs to a more lucrative employment, the explorer turn-ed back from this point. He was laid up for some time withthe sores on his feet, which became irritable eating ulcers, sopainful that sometimes he could not sleep. While he was thus rendered helpless, the few men that hadnot deserted him occupied much of their time in hunting. Thechief game about this point was the soko, a species of the chim-panzee which has sometimes been identified with the gorilla;but no white scientist has ever seen the soko, and those Afri-cans who came to England after the death of Dr. Livingstone failed to recognize the gorilla, stuffed, which is in the British25
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livixgstoxes last journey. 389 Museum, as a soko. Nor do the descriptions of soko-huntslead us to believe that they are the same as that powerful andferocious animal of Western Equatorial Africa, which DuChaillu has described. The soko is represented by some to beextremely knowing, successfully stalking men and womenwhile at their work, kidnapping children and running up treeswith them; he seems to be amilsed by the sight of the youngnatives in his arms, but comes down when tempted by a bunchof bananas, and as he lifts that, drops the child. One man wascutting honey from a tree, when a soko suddenly appeared andcaught him, and then let him go. Another man was hunting,and missed in his aim when he attempted to stab a soko; itseized the spear and broke it, then grappled with the man,who called for help to his companions; it bit off the ends ofhis fingers and escaped unharmed. Another still was caughtby a soko while hoeing; he roared out, but the soko giggledand grinned, and left him as

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