Professor Drummond’s statements respecting Africa--Dimensions of the great forest--Vegetation--Insect life--Description of the trees, &c.--Tribes and their food--The primæval forest--The bush proper--The clearings: wonders of vegetable life--The queer feeling of loneliness--A forest tempest--Tropical vegetation along the banks of the Aruwimi--Wasps’ nests--The forest typical of human life--A few secrets of the woods--Game in the forest--Reasons why we did not hunt the animals--Birds--The Simian tribe--Reptiles and insects--The small bees and the beetles--The “jigger”--Night disturbances by falling trees, &c.--The Chimpanzee--The rainiest zone of the earth--The Ituri or Upper Aruwimi--The different tribes and their languages--Their features and customs--Their complexion--Conversation with some captives at Engweddé--The Wambutti dwarfs: their dwellings and mode of living--The Batwa dwarfs--Life in the forest villages--Two Egyptians captured by the dwarfs at Fort Bodo--The poisons used for the arrows--Our treatment for wounds by the arrows--The wild fruits of the forest--Domestic animals--Ailments of the Madis and Zanzibaris--The Congo Railway and the forest products 73
IMPRISONMENT OF EMIN PASHA AND MR. JEPHSON.
Our reception at Fort Bodo--Lieut. Stairs’ report of what took place at the Fort during our relief of the rear column--No news of Jephson--Muster of our men--We burn the Fort and advance to find Emin and Jephson--Camp at Kandekoré--Parting words to Lieut. Stairs and Surgeon Parke, who are left in charge of the sick--Mazamboni gives us news of Emin and Jephson--Old Gavira escorts us--Two Wahuma messengers bring letters from Emin and Jephson--Their contents--My replies to the same handed to Chief Mogo for delivery--The Balegga attack us, but, with the help of the Bavira, are repulsed--Mr. Jephson turns up--We talk of Emin--Jephson’s report bearing upon the revolt of the troops of Equatoria, also his views respecting the invasion of the province by the Mahdists, and its results--Emin Pasha sends through Mr. Jephson an answer to my last letter 112
EMIN PASHA AND HIS OFFICERS REACH OUR CAMP AT KAVALLI.
Lieut. Stairs and his caravan are sent for--Plans regarding the release of Emin from Tunguru--Conversations with Jephson by which I acquire a pretty correct idea of the state of affairs--The rebel officers at Wadelai--They release Emin, and proceed in the s.s. _Khedive_ and _Nyanza_ to our camp at Kavalli--Emin Pasha’s arrival--Stairs and his caravan arrive at Mazamboni’s--Characteristic letter from Jephson, who is sent to bring Emin and his officers from the Lake to Kavalli--Short note from the Pasha--Arrival of Emin Pasha’s caravan--We make a grand display outside our camp--At the grand divan: Selim Bey--Stairs’ column rolls into camp with piles of wealth--Mr. Bonny despatched to the Nyanza to bring up baggage--Text of my message to the rest of the revolted officers at Wadelai--Note from Mr. Bonny--The Greek merchant, Signor Marco, arrives--Suicide of Zanzibari named Mrima--Neighbouring chiefs supply us with carriers--Captain Nelson brings in Emin’s baggage--Arrangements with the chiefs from the Ituri River to the Nyanza--The chief Kabba-Rega--Emin Pasha’s daughter--Selim Bey receives a letter from Fadl-el-Mulla--The Pasha appointed naturalist and meteorologist to the Expedition--The Pasha a Materialist--Dr. Hassan’s arrival--My inspection over the camp--Capt. Casati arrives--Mr. Bonny appears with Awash Effendi and his baggage--The rarest doctor in the world--Discovery of some chimpanzees--The Pasha in his vocation of “collecting”--Measurements of the dwarfs--Why I differ with Emin in the judgment of his men--Various journeys from the camp to the Lake for men and baggage--The Zanzibaris’ complaints of the ringleaders--Hassan Bakari--The Egyptian officers--Interview with Shukri Agha--The flora on the Baregga Hills--The chief of Usiri joins our confederacy--Conversation with Emin regarding Selim Bey and Shukri Agha--Address by me to Stairs, Nelson, Jephson and Parke before Emin Pasha--Their replies--Notices to Selim Bey and Shukri Agha 139