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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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ir chiefs. Finding it impossible to keep the secret from Chitambo, whose superstition they had dreaded, they were agreeably surprised when the chief made no objections to their preparing the body by a rude sort of embalming and taking it to Zanzibar. The burial service of the English church was read by Jacob Wainwright, and for fourteen days this process of preparing the body continued. Then, they wrapped it in muslin, and stripping from a myonga tree a large piece of bark, made a cylinder of it, in which the body was placed, and which was covered with a piece of sail-cloth and lashed securely to a pole, LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNEY. 409 go as to be carried by two men. Jacob Wainwright, at the request of Susi and Chuma, who seem to have forgotten nothing, carved an inscription on a large mvula tree which stood near the hut where the body rested; they also erected two high, thick posts, with a heavy cross-piece, like a lintel and door-posts in form, which they painted thoroughly with tar.
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Susi and Chuma. The homeward march was then begun; but they were so affected by the hardships which they had previously undergone, that on the third day after setting out they were obliged 410 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNEY. to halt; half their number were positively unable to go on. It was nearly three weeks before they were able to proceed. Then, fortunately, the rains were over, so that there was less danger of sickness. With the events of this journey, we have nothing to do, so far as they relate to the adventures of the men themselves. It was weeks after their starting that they learned from an Arab caravan that the news of their masters death had already been reported in Unyanyembe.

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