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Title: Tramps round the Mountains of the Moon and through the back gate of the Congo State by T. Broadwood Johnson. With an introd. by T.F. Victor Buxton
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, T. Broadwood
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Publisher: London T.F. Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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his face was terriblytwisted up and lop-sided, and his teeth laid bare anddisfigured by disease. He was quite friendly to us inevery way, as I have just recorded, and it was verygrieving to hear of the trouble that came upon himand his people nearly three years later. It happened in this way. A party of five English-men, engaged in the collection of natural historyspecimens on Ruwenzori, passed round by this route.At the frontier, near Katwe, they were met by a Belgianofficer, who pressed upon them a small native escortto conduct them to Mbeni ; as they were proposingspending some considerable period in the district, hewished them to explain their purpose at the fort. Thenatives, though timid at first of their European visitors,through recent disturbances with the Belgian Govern-ment, were encouraged to come to the camp with theirfood, and all were friendly. At Mbeni, however, theGovernment officer in charge insisted upon the partytaking a large native escort of thirty soldiers with a
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Formidable Herring-bone Barbed Arrows of BambubaForest Tribe. Once in—a fixture ! 214 TO THE BELGIAN FORT AT MBENI Belgian officer in command. On arrival at the footof Ruwenzori, two of the Englishmen, anticipating notrouble, set out from camp for a climb ; they were,however, soon followed by a messenger with thestartling news that the camp had been attacked.Having rejoined their party with all haste, camp wasstruck, and a running fight carried on all the way backto Mbeni. Two soldiers were killed and five wounded,whilst the Englishmen had some narrow escapes, andDr. Wollaston (the doctor with the expedition) hada nasty time at the fort, cutting out barbed arrowheads and attending to wounds. The villages wereafterwards burned, and the whole district devastated,the natives having fled for refuge to the forest. For thefirst three or four days journey between this and thenext fort all the Government rest-houses were burnedand not a native was to be seen. Some misbehaviouron the part of

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