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Title: In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Henry M. Stanley
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Publisher: Scribner
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
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strip of rattan carefullypolished. To experiment with their power I drove oneof the wooden arrows, at six feet distance, through twosides of an empty biscuit tin. At 200 yards distancewas a tall tree. I drove an arrow, with full force, overthe top of the highest branch and beyond the tree. Itdawned on us all then that these wooden arrows werenot the contemptible things we had imagined. At ashort distance we judged, from what we saw, that thestiff spring of this little bow was sufficient to drive oneof these slender arrows clean through a human body. At120 paces I have been able to miss a bird within an inchwith one of them. At noon on the 15th of August the land column filedout of the palisaded villages of Avisibba led by Mr.Jephson, the officer of the day. As a captive hadinformed us that there were three cataracts ahead notfar off, I instructed Mr. Jephson that he must followthe river and halt at the first convenient spot about2.30 P.M. ; that I would halt the river column, now I I
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WOODEN ABHOWS OF THE AVISIBBA.(From a photograph.) 182 IN DARKEST AFIilCA. 1887. consisting of the boat and fourteen canoes, until theAug. 15. j,gg^j, guard under Captain Nelson had quite left theAvisibba. gg^^)gi^gnj^. )3ut as the canoes would proceed fasterthan the land caravan, I would probably overtake him,and camp at the first fit place I could find after anhours row, in which event he would proceed until hefound us. The instructions were also repeated to theleading men of the pioneers. I ought to have stated that our start at noon wasoccasioned by the delay caused by the discovery at themorning muster that five men were absent. They ulti-mately turned up at 10 oclock; but this perpetualstraying away without leave was most exasperating,and had drawn a lecture from me, though this was notuncommon in those stupid early days of training. The Zanzibaris persisted in exhibiting an indifferenceto danger absolutely startling, not from bravery, orfrom ignorance of fear, but from an utter

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