416 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



out of his tent with a loaded gun and tried to assassinate his 

 leader, the bullet passing through the pillow on which Stanley's 

 head was resting. Of course the entire camp was speedily 

 aroused, and Stanley went straight to Shaw's tent, having been 

 told who fired the shot. Shaw pretended to be soundly asleep, 

 but being aroused and confronted with indisputable evidence 

 of his guilt a warm gun with freshly burnt powder in the bar- 

 rel he declared he had been dreaming of a thief, whom he shot 

 at. Stanley warned him not to indulge in such dreams again, 

 intimating that it would be very unsafe for him to do so. 



Farquhar was in no condition to travel, so, at his own request, 

 he was left at a small native village in the Ugogo country, in 

 charge of a kindly-mannered old man. Six month's provisions, a 

 rifle, with 300 cartridges, and an interpreter were left with him. 



They now marched on to Chungo, where they joined a trading 

 party of Arabs going west, and twelve new carriers were engaged, 

 so that the entire force was increased to four hundred souls, with 

 flags, horns, drums, guns, etc., making a most formidable cara- 

 van for Central Africa. They were now only thirty miles from 

 Ugogo. 



ENTERING UGOGO. 



THE entrance into Ugogo was the very counterpart of a circus 

 parade ; Stanley rode at the head, and as he came in sight of the 

 village its swarming inhabitants rushed out to meet him, shouting 

 with all the strength of their lungs. The whole village was soon 

 before, abreast and behind his heels, lullalooing and shouting in 

 the most excited manner; for Stanley was the first white man 

 they had ever seen. From village to village, which are in imme- 

 diate succession and called Ugogo, the crowd kept gathering, 

 until a furious mob of naked men, women and children, their 

 bodies ornately tattooed, pressed upon the white man. " Hither- 

 to," says Stanley, "I had compared myself to a merchant 

 of Bagdad, traveling among the Kurds of Kurdistan, selling 

 his wares of Damascus silk, kefiyehs, etc., but now I was 

 compelled to lower my standard, and thought myself not 

 bAtter than the monkev in the zoological collection 



