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left, and the place that your father made so strong will know the 

 \Vaseguhha no more. Set free the Musungu's soldiers ; give 

 them their food, and grain for the Musungu ; return the guns to 

 the men and let them go ; for the white man may even now be 

 on his way here." 



These exaggerated reports of Stanley's power produced a good 

 effect, for the soldiers were released, their arms and the donkeys 

 restored, and sufficient food was furnished to last them for four 

 days, until they could overtake the caravan. Stanley was very 

 much exercised over the outrage which he felt had been commit- 

 ted on his men, but he was now so far advanced that he could 

 not afford to turn back and obtain satisfaction. But the run- 

 away cook was not found. 



MARCHING THROUGH SWAMPS. 



THE expedition started again, after a delay of four days, for 

 Ugogo, in the midst of a pelting rain storm, which flooded the 

 country and rendered traveling excessively difficult. They soon 

 struck a swamp from which the malarial evaporations rose up so 

 rank that Shaw took sick, and the labor of driving the caravan fell 

 entirely on Stanley. The donkeys stuck in the mire as if they 

 were rooted to it. As fast as one was flogged from his stubborn 

 position, prone to the depths fell another, so that the labor of 

 extricating them was maddening under pelting rain, assisted by 

 such men as Bombay and Uledi, who could not for whole skin's 

 sake stomach the. storm and mire. Two hours of such a task 

 enabled Stanley to drag his caravan over a savannah one mile 

 and a half broad ; and barely had he finished congratulating him- 

 self over his success before he was halted by a deep ditch, which, 

 filled with rain-water from the inundated savannahs, had become 

 a considerable stream, breast-deep, flowing swiftly into the 

 Makata. Donkeys had to be unloaded, led through a torrent, 

 and loaded again on the other bank an operation which con- 

 sumed a full hour. 



INTERNAL DISSENSIONS AND A TIGHT. 



ON the following day another part of the swamp was reached, 

 which was five miles across and from one to four feet in depth ; 



