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who was 4 feet 10 inches in height. " He walks like a man, and 

 goes about vrith a stick, with which he beats the trees in the 

 forest, and makes hideous noises. The Nyama eat our bananas, 

 and we hunt them, kill them, and eat them." 



The animal thus described by the chief is the soko, or gorilla ; 

 but with his utmost efforts Stanley was never able to secure one, 

 or even to see any indications of them in the woods. He 

 therefore concluded that the horrible relics along the street were 

 human skulls, and procuring several of them he took them with 

 him and had them examined by the distinguished scientist, Prof. 

 Huxley, after his return to England. He confirmed Stanley's 

 suspicions, by pronouncing them skulls of human beings, and 

 stated that more than half of those examined by him bore marks 

 of a hatchet which had been driven into the head while the 

 victims were alive. 



On the 19th a march of five miles through the forest west from 

 Kampunzu brought the expedition to the Lualaba, in south lati- 

 tude 3 35', just forty-one geographical miles north of the Arab 

 depot Myangvve. An afternoon observation for longitude showed 

 east longitude 25 49'. The name Lualaba terminates here. 

 Thenceforth Stanley speaks of it as the Livingstone river, which 

 name he gave it. 



Arrangements were made to cross the river by launching the 

 Lady Alice and calling upon the people of a small village on the 

 opposite shore for assistance with their canoes. After a long 

 talk and the giving of many presents, canoes were furnished to 

 cross the caravan, but scarcely had they landed when an attack 

 was made upon them by a thousand or more natives, who, how- 

 ever, were soon driven off. They were now in the Ukusee 

 country, among savages whose lives were apparently devoted to 

 slaughter, and whose choice meat was human flesh. Each village 

 street was ornamented with two rows of bleached trophies of 

 eaten humanity, forming a ghastly imitation of shell decorations 

 along the paths of our parks and gardens. 



A sufficient number of canoes having been secured, Stanley 

 embarked his expedition, with the intention of completing his 



