50* THK MOULD'S WONDERS. 



bv tne bravery of this young chief, thsit he ordered his men not 

 to lire on him again, and soon afterward the savages followed 

 their leader and retired to the shore. 



On January 10th they made a camp on shore without molesta- 

 tion, but great was their astonishment in the morning to find that 

 during the night a net- work of rope had been set around the 

 camp, in which the natives expected to ensnare the entire expe- 

 dition, like so many wild animals. In a short fight which now 

 took place eight of the cannibals were captured, who, upon being 

 questioned, admitted that they had set their nets for man-meat. 

 They also declared that their village was an hour's journey from 

 the camp, that they ate old men and old women, as well as every 

 stranger captured in the woods. The three donkeys which Stan- 

 ley had with him struck the captives with great awe and terror, 

 and when they were led up to the animals they cried out in such 

 pitiable accents and begged so hard for mercy that they elicited 

 Stanley's sympathy ; but they were taken along to pilot the expe- 

 dition to the next falls, which were soon reached, and being the 

 most picturesque as well as the largest in the river, were named, 

 in honor of the explorer, Stanley Falls. 



KING CHUMBIRI. 



AT Balobo they were rejoiced to find a humane old king, 

 named Chumbiri, who treated Stanley with such large hospitality 

 that he was induced to camp there for several days. The king 

 came to visit him in great state, having a large escort of mus- 

 keteers who were dressed in bright-colored cloths. The old man 

 was a character, even for Africa. He wore a singular looking 

 tall hat, fashioned like those worn by Armenian priests. It was 

 constructed out of close-plaited hyphene-palm fibre, sufficiently 

 durable to outlast his life, though he might live a century. 

 From his left shoulder, across his chest, was suspended a sword 

 of the bill-hook pattern. Above his shoulder stood upright the 

 bristles of an elephant's tail. His hand was armed with a 

 buffalo's tail, made into a fly-flapper, to whisk mosquitoes and 

 gnats off the royal face. To his wrist were attached the odds 

 and ends which the laws of superstition had enjoined upon him, 



