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The Slave Trade

           HisobjectthenwastogainacompleteknowledgeofLoualaba,ofwhichhehadonlyhadaglimpse.

           CameronwasthenlostintheprovincesofCentralAfrica,when,inNovember,1874,StanleyquittedBagamoga,ontheeasterncoast.Twenty-onemonthsafter,August24th,1876,heabandonedOujiji,whichwasdecimatedbyanepidemicofsmallpox.Inseventy-fourdaysheeffectedthepassageofthelakeatN’yangwe,agreatslavemarket,whichhadbeenalreadyvisitedbyLivingstoneandCameron.Herehewitnessedthemosthorriblescenes,practisedintheMaroungouandManyouemacountriesbytheofficersoftheSultanofZanzibar.

           StanleythentookmeasurestoexplorethecourseoftheLoualabaandtodescenditasfarasitsmouth.Onehundredandfortybearers,engagedatN’yangwe,andnineteenboats,formedthematerialandtheforceofhisexpedition.

           FromtheverystarthehadtofightthecannibalsofOugouson.Fromthestart,also,hehadtoattendtothecarryingofboats,soastopassinsuperablecataracts.

           Undertheequator,atthepointwheretheLoualabamakesabendtothenortheast,fifty-fourboats,mannedbyseveralhundrednatives,attackedStanley’slittlefleet,whichsucceededinputtingthemtoflight.ThenthecourageousAmerican,reascendingasfarastheseconddegreeofnorthernlatitude,ascertainedthattheLoualabawastheupperZaire,orCongo,andthatbyfollowingitscoursehecoulddescenddirectlytothesea.

           Thishedid,fightingnearlyeverydayagainstthetribesthatlivedneartheriver.

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