Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . ir chiefs. Finding it impossible lo keep the secret from Chitambo,whose superstition they had dreaded, they were agreeably sur-prised when the chief made no objections to their preparingthe body by a rude sort of embalming and taking it to Zanzi-bar. The burial service of the English church was read byJacob Wainwright, and for fourteen days this process of pre-paring the body continued. Then, they wrapped it in muslin,and stripping from a myonga tree a larg
Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . ir chiefs. Finding it impossible lo keep the secret from Chitambo,whose superstition they had dreaded, they were agreeably sur-prised when the chief made no objections to their preparingthe body by a rude sort of embalming and taking it to Zanzi-bar. The burial service of the English church was read byJacob Wainwright, and for fourteen days this process of pre-paring the body continued. Then, they wrapped it in muslin,and stripping from a myonga tree a large piece of bark, madea cylinder of it, in which the body was placed, and which wascovered with a piece of sail-cloth and lashed securely to a pole, ilVlNGSTONE^S LAST JOURJ^EY. 409 go as to be carried by two men. Jacob AYainwright, at the re-quest of Susi and Chuma, who seem to have forgotten noth-ing, carved an inscription on a large mvula tree which stoodnear the hut where the body rested; they also erected twohigh, thick posts, with a heavy cross-piece, like a lintel anddoor-posts in form, w^hich they painted thoroughly with Susi and Chuma. The homeward march was then begun; but they were soaffected by the hardships which they had previously under-gone, that on the third day after setting out they were obliged 410 LIVINGSTONE^S LAST JOURNEY. to halt; half their number were positively unable to go was nearly three weeks before they were able to , fortunately, the rains were over, so that there was lessdanger of sickness. With the events of this journey, we have nothing to do, sofar as they relate to the adventures of the men was weeks after their starting that they learned from anArab caravan that the news of their masters death had alreadybeen reported in Unyanyembe.
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