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Show rim Starvation Stalks Through Stanley's Gamp in the African Wilderness. IS SMALL BOY CLASSIFIES "KIDS" (anus in Manners-Diet of Old People-Other People-Other Notes of Importance and Items of Interest. " iftsr informing tho unfortunate crfp-Jof crfp-Jof our intention to proceed forward d we could find food, that we might Tjj be lost, and aend relief aa quickly 'it could be obtained, I consigned the two moB eighty-one loads and ten in charge of Captain Nelson, A him be of good cheer and, hoisting ff loads and boat on onr shonlders, we .jcbedaway. Vo more gloomy spot could nave been lected for a camp than that sandy ter-M ter-M encompassed by rocks and hem-i hem-i in narrowly by those dark woods, achro?e from the river's edge to the m of 600 feet, and pent in the never Jing uproar which was created by ie writhing and tortured stream and e twin cataracts which ever rivaled .bother's thunder. The imagination udders at the hapless position of use crippled men, who were doomed remain inactive, to listen every mc-rtit mc-rtit to the awful sound of that ir-coacilable ir-coacilable fury of wrathful waters, ij the monotonous and continuous u of plunging rivers; to watch the iping waves coiling and twisting o uprising columns as they ever rettled for mastery with each other, ilwere dashed in white fragments of am far apart by the ceaseless force of iven currents; to gaze at the dark, ientless woods spreading upward and oond, standing perpetually fixed in ill green, mourning over past ages, past nesand past generations; then think tonight with its palpable blackness; e dead, black shadows of the wooded lis; that eternal sound of fury, that iseless boom of the cataracts, the in. Suite forms born of nervousness and irfulness; that misery engendered by aeliness, and creeping sense of aban-nment; aban-nment; then will be understood some-rag some-rag of the true position of these poor en. And what of us, trudging np those xided slopes to gain the crest of the rest upland, to tramp on and on, lite, we knew not, for how long a ne we dared not think, seeking for sd, with the double responsibility iighiug us down for these trustful we fellows with us, and for those, no j brave and trustful, whom we had t behind at the bottom of the horrible nyon? Henry M. Stanley in Scribner's. |