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Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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y, in memory of a faith-ful follower. Hence two rivulets run, graduallyconverging, and finally uniting into astream which trends toward Lake Vic-toria. So here the extreme southernsources of the Nile were discovered ; butup to this point the explorer had, as hesaid, childs play, to what he after-wards encountered. We have already 278 STANLEYS JOURNEYS ACROSS AFRICA. seen what this childs play was like.Stanley proceeded gently to Vinyata,where the expedition arrived on the2ist of January, 1875. Here a magicdoctor paid Stanley a visit, and castlonging eyes at the stores. Next day, after the departure of themagic doctor, who came for anotherpresent, the natives showed hostile cowardice the wish for peace. Therewere so many tempting articles too—stores dear to the native mind, which theinhabitants coveted. No peace wouldbe made at any price, and the savagesattacked the camp in force. Stanley disposed his men behindhastily-erected earthworks and othershelter, and used the sections of the
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FIERCE ATTACK BY NATIVES UPON THE EXPLORERS. symptoms. One hundred ,_^ksavages,armed and in warlike costume, camearound, shouting and brandishing theirweapons. At this juncture Stanley, fol-lowing Livingstones practice, decidedto make no counter demonstration ; butto remain quiet in camp, and provokeno hostility. This plan did not answer,however. The natives mistook for L-ady Alice barge as a citadel forfinal occupation. There were only sev-enty effective men to defend the campbut these were divided into detachmentsand subdivided. One sub-detachmentwas quickly destroyed, and in the day^sfight twenty-one soldiers and one mes-senger were killed—three wounded.Stanleys men, however, pursued the STANLEY S JOURNEYS ACROSS AFRICA. 279 retreatingf enemy, and burned many vil-lages, the men bringing in cattle andgrain as spoils. Next day the nativescame on again, but they were quicklyrouted, and the expedition continuedits way through the now desolatevalley unmolested. So the Iturnianswere pu

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