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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
Matagera, and Saburi Eeliani, liave been detained by 
the infuriated villagers. It would have been merely 
half an hour’s quick work, not only to have released the 
three captives, but to have obtained such an abundance 
of food as to have saved us much subsequent misery, 
but such an act would have been quite contrary to the 
principles which had governed and guided the Expedi- 
tion in its travels from the eastern sea. Protection was 
only to be given against a wanton assault on the camp 
and its occupants ; arms were only to be employed to 
resist savagery ; and though, upon considering the cir- 
cumstances, few could blame the hungry people for 
appropriating food, yet we had but sympathy to give 
them in their distress. Sad and sorrowful, we turned 
away from them, abandoning them to their dismal fate. 
The river between Kilolo and Nsuki Kintomba was 
about 1400 yards wide, and both banks were charac- 
terized by calm little bays, formed by projected reefs of 
schistose rock. Just above Nsuki Kintomba a range of 
mountains runs north-west from some lofty conical hills 
which front the stream. Below a pretty cove, overhung 
by a white chalky cliff, in the centre of which there stood 
a tree-covered islet, we occupied a camp near a high and 
broad tract of pure white sand. 
The inhabitants of the settlement on the right side 
were unfriendly, and they had little, save ground-nuts 
and cassava, to sell. Whether embittered by the steri- 
the United States corvette Essex, Captain Schley, took him to Saint 
Helena, and thence, through the kindness of the captain of one of Donald 
Currie’s Cape Line steamers, he was carried gratuitously to Cape Town. 
Again the Samaritan act of assisting the needy and distressed stranger 
was performed by the agent of the Union Steamship Company’s line, 
who placed him on board the Kaffir, which was bound for Zanzibar. It 
is well known that soon after leaving Table Bay the Kaffir was wrecked. 
From the Cape Times, February 19, 1878, I clip the following, in spite of 
its compliment to myself : “ On the bow were some natives of Zanzibar. 
Among them was the man who had gone through Africa with Stanley. 
This man was supposed to have been drowned with four others. But 
early in the morning he was found very snugly lying under a tent made 
of a blanket, with a roaring fire before him. Of all the wrecked people 
that night there was no one who had been more comfortable than 
Stanley’s Arab. The power of resource and the genius of the master had 
evidently been imparted in some degree to the man.” 
