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On the 28th of February Stanley reached Kafurro, where he 

 remained a month, the guest of the kind old king Rumanika, 

 who was a giant in height (six feet six inches), but a man of 

 great benevolence and peacefully-disposed nature ; in fact, an 

 African gentleman. 



SOME NATIVE STORIES. 



OXE day after leaving Rumanika' s country, Stanley shot three 

 rhinoceri, from the bodies of which he obtained ample supplies 

 of meat for the journey through the wilderness of Uhimba. One 

 of these enormous brutes possessed a horn 2 feet long, with a 

 sharp dagger-like point, and below that a stunted horn, 9 inches 

 in length. He appeared to have had a tussle with some wild 

 beast, for a hand's breadth of hide was torn from his rump. 



The natives of this country informed Stanley, with the utmost 

 gravity, that the elephant maltreats the rhinoceros frequently, 

 because of the jealousy that the former entertains of his fiery 

 cousin. It is said that if the elephant observes the excrement 

 of the rhinoceros unscattered, he waxes furious, and proceeds 

 instantly in search of the criminal, when woe befall him if he is 

 sulky and disposed to battle for the proud privilege of leaving 

 his droppings as they fall ! The elephant in that case breaks off a 

 heavy branch of a tree, or uproots a stout sapling like a boat's 

 mast, and belabors the unfortunate beast until he is glad to save 

 himself by hurried flight. For this reason, the natives say, the 

 rhinoceros always turns round and thoroughly scatters what he 

 has dropped. 



Should a rhinceros meet an elephant, he must observe the 

 rule of the road and walk away, for the latter brooks no rivalry ; 

 but the former is sometimes headstrong, and the elephant then 

 dispatches him with his tusks by forcing him against a tree and 

 goring him, or by upsetting him, and leisurely crushing him. 



MEETING WITH MIRAMBO, THE BANDIT KING. 



ARRIVING at Serombo, April 20th, Stanley learned that the 

 great Napoleonic bandit king, Mirambo, the mighty warrior of 

 Unyamwezi, was in the neighborhood ; this report greatly fright- 

 ened the Waganda soldiers who had been sent with Stanley by 



