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come back, left a donkey tied to a tree, upon which he might 

 ride and overtake the caravan. 



Directly after this incident Bombay came riding up to Stanley 

 and reported the loss of a gun, a pistol, an American axe, a bale 

 of cloth, and some beads ; he explained that he had laid the 

 articles down while going to a stream for water, and upon return- 

 ing found them gone, stolen, he declared, by the subjects of the 

 Sultana. 



The caravan was now obliged to stop, while Stanley sent back 

 three soldiers to recover the articles, if possible, and also to find 

 the culprit, who had run off. After a search of two days the 

 soldiers found the donkey and missing articles in possession of 

 two natives, whom he took to the Sultana, where they were 

 charged with murdering the missing man. This they strongly 

 denied, but the Sultana believed them guilty and threw them into 

 prison to await the next caravan going to Zanzibar, whither she 

 would send them for sentence. The Sultana next ordered the 

 three soldiers seized and placed in chains, and also confiscated 

 their property, and declared she would detain them until their 

 master should return and pay her the tribute she had demanded. 

 The unfortunate soldiers were kept in chains in the market-place, 

 exposed to the taunts of the servile multitude for sixteen hours, 

 when they were discovered by a Sheik who had passed Stanley 

 five days before. This man recognized the soldiers as members 

 of the expedition, and sought an audience with them. After 

 hearing their story, the good-hearted Sheik sought the presence 

 of the Sultana, and informed her that she was doing very wrong 

 a wrong that could only terminate in blood. "TheMusungu 

 is strong," he said, " very strong ; he has got two guns which 

 shoot forty times without stopping, carrying bullets half an hour's 

 distance ; he has got several guns which carry bullets that burst 

 and tear a man in pieces. He could go to the top of that moun- 

 tain and could kill every man, woman and child in the town 

 before one of your soldiers could reach the top, The road will 

 then be stopped ; Syed Burghash will march against your country ; 

 the Wadoe and Wakami will come and take revenge on what is 



