Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...Dr. Parke--therefore loss of men To 27 men at Ipoto too feeble to travel, many of whom will not recover. To spearing to death Mufta Mazinga.... To flogging one man to death To flogging Ami, a Zanzibari, 200 lashes. To attempting to starve Captain Nelson and Dr. Parke. To instigating robbery of two boxes of ammunition. To receiving thirty stolen Eemington rifles. To various oppressions of Zanzibaris. To compelling Sarboko to work as their slave. To various insults to Captain Nelson and Dr. Parke. To devastating 44,000 square miles of territory. To butchery of several thousands of natives. To enslaving several hundreds of women and children. To theft of 200 tusks of ivory between May, 1887, and October, 1887. To many murders, raids, crimes, devastations past, present and prospective. To deaths of Zanzibaris...69 To mischiefs incalculable! During the afternoon of the 17th we experienced once again the evils attending our connection with the Manyuema. All Ibwiri and neighbouring districts were in arms against us. The first declaration of their hostilities took place when a man named Simba proceeded to the stream close to the camp to draw water, and received an arrow in the abdomen. Realizing from our anxious faces the fatal nature of the wound, he cried out his " Buryani brothers!" and soon after, being taken into his hut, loaded a Remington rifle near him, and made a ghastly wreck of features that were once jovial, and not uncomely. The reflections of the Zanzibaris on the suicide were curious, and best expressed by Sali, the tent boy. "Think of it, Simba! a poor devil owning nothing in the world, without anything or anybody dear to him, neither name, place, property, or honour, to commit 1887. Not. 17. Ibwiri. suicide! Were...
