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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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tians reached camp four hours after theadvance guard, and the officer in charge of the rearcomplained bitterly of the abuse that he had receivedfrom the Pashas officers, some of them jeering at him,making mouths, and daring him to drive them along,which compelled me to issue the following order :— Whereas the Expedition must necessarily proceed slowly, and shortenits marches, owing to the promise that we have gi-^en Selim Bey, and tothe fact that the Egyptians, the Soudanese and their followers are as yetimaccustomed to hard travel and fatigue, and to the fact that I, theirguide, am physically too weak to endure more than two or three hoursexertion of any kind, the officers will please exercise the greatestpatience and forbearance, but they must on no account forget the dutiespeculiar to the rear-guard. They will permit no straggling by the way-side, no looting of villages, no indiscriminate pillaging of plantations,BO marauding upon any excuse; and ui^ou any insolence, whether from
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ENCOUNTER WITH KABBA REOAS PEOPLE. 255 Egyptian officer, private soldier, or follower, the officer in charge will iggg. call his guard and bind the offender, and bring him to me for punish- May 10 ment. If any violence is offered it must be met by such violence as Utinda,will instantly crush it. From the basin of Utinda we ascended past a fewcones dominatino- a rido;e which enclosed it on the southand south-east, and, after surmounting two other ridgesseparated by well-watered valleys, we arrived on theairy upland of grassy Uhobo, 4,900 feet above sea-level. A little later Kaibuga entered into our camp.This chief was of the AVahuma settled among theBalegga, whose grounds overlooked the plain of Kavalliand the south end of the Nyanza, and whose territoryextended to the debouchure of the Semliki. Heurged active hostilities, as Uhobo belonged to KabbaRega. Naturally we smiled at this, as we had notseen the semblance of a single enemy, though it is truethat the Uhobo natives had disappear

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