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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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eceived the sad information that the noble Khamisbin Abdullah, with many of his adherents, had been slain.Perceiving that his people were ready to stand by him, Stanleymade preparations for defence by boring loop-holes for musk-ets into the stout clay walls of his tembe. They were madeso quickly, and seemed so admirably adapted for the efficientdefence of the tembe that his men got quite brave; andWangwana refugees with guns in their hands, driven out ofTabora, asked to be admitted to this tembe to assist in its de-fence. Livingstones men were also collected, and invited tohelp defend their masters goods against Mirambos supposedattack. By night, Stanley had one hundred and fifty armedmen in his courtyard, stationed at every possible point wherean attack was to be expected. The next day, Mirambo hadthreatened, he would come to Kwihara; Stanley hoped thathe would come, and was resolved that if he came within rangeof an American rifle, it should be seen what virtue lies inAmerican lead.
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HOW STANLEY FOUND LIVINGSTONE. 449 The tembe was fortified so strongly that Stanley expressedit as his firm conviction that ten thousand Africans could nottake it; four or five hundred Europeans without cannon, orfifty with its aid, he adds, might take it. But having expend-ed all this care, and waited so anxiously to give Mirambo ataste of American lead, that gentleman chose to avoid theplace where such a reception had been prepared for him, andturned his attention to Mfuto. While he was anxiously gathering up a sufiicient number ofmen to transport his necessary baggage to Ujiji, Stanley receiveda present. This was nothing less than a little boy slave, namedNdugu Mhali. The name did not suit his fancy, and he calledthe chiefs of his caravan together and asked them to choose abetter one. Various names were suggested, but Ulimengo,after looking at his quick eyes, and noting his celerity ofmovement, pronounced the name Ka-lu-lu best for him,Because, said he, just look at his eyes! So br

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