Part 13 (2/2)

Tippo Tib was lord of this slave-trading do rascal had a distinct personality He was a ain in all Africa Livingstone, Cameron, Stanley, and Wissmann all did business with him, for he had a monopoly on porters and no one could proceed without his help He invariably waited until the white man reached the lihest price, in true Shylockian fashi+on

According to Herbert Ward, the well-known African artist and explorer, who accompanied Stanley on the E of a philosopher On one occasion Ward spent the evening with the old Arab He occupied a wretched house Rain dripped in through the roof, rats scuttled across the floor, and wind shook the walls When the Englishman expressed his astonishment that so rich and powerful a chief should dwell in such a mean abode Tippo Tib said:

”It is better that I should live in a house like this because it makes me remember that I am only an ordinary man like others If I lived in a fine house with co too much of myself”

Ward also relates another typical story about this blood-thirsty bandit

A htful barbarities he had perpetrated, whereupon he received the following reply:

”Ah, yes! You see I was then a young ray I am an old man and shall have more consideration”

Until his death in 1907 at Zanzibar, Tippo Tib and reforers He eious fanaticism so often found in the Arab He served his God and the devil with the same relentless devotion He incarnated a type that happily has vanished froion around Stanleyville is rich with historic interest and association The great name inseparably and ih he found Livingstone, relieved Eo River, and sowed the seeds of civilization throughout the heart of the continent, his greatest single achieveo Free State No other enterprise took such toll of his essential qualities and especially his genius for organization

Stanley is most widely known as an explorer, yet he was, at the sao adventure would be incoion and the hoed to see it a British possession and it was only after he offered it twice to England and ice rebuffed, that he accepted the invitation of King Leopold II to organize the stations under the auspices of the International African association, which was the first step toward Belgian sovereignty

I have talked with ian associates of Stanley

Without exception they all acclai virtues both in the physical and spiritual sense All agree that he was a hard iven by Herbert Ward, who once spoke to hiot to be hard

If you're not hard you're weak There are only two sides to it”

Stanley always declared that his whole idea of life and ere e maxim: ”The three M's are all we need They are Morals, Mind and Muscles These must be cultivated if ish to be iree he worked and lived up to these principles

No explorer, not even Peary in the Arctic wilds, was ever prey to a larger isolation than this man In the midst of the multitude he was alone He shunned intimacy and one of his mournful reflections was, ”I have had no friend on any expedition, no one who could possibly be stone”

I cannot resist the ilishmen, Rhodes and Stanley, whose lives are intimately woven into the fabric of African romance They had much in common and yet they idely different in purpose and temperament Each was an autocrat and brooked no interference Each had the sa ideal of British imperialism Each suffered abuse at the hands of his countrymen and lived to witness a triumphant vindication

Stanley had a rare talent for details--he went on the theory that if you wanted a thing done properly youway and left the interpretation to subordinates

Stanley was devoutly religious while Rhodes paid scant attention to the spiritual side Each was a dreaarded money as a means to an end Rhodes, however, was far more disdainful of wealth as such, than Stanley, who received large sums for his books and lectures It is only fair to hie of the io afforded

Still another intrepid Englisho General Gordon agreed to assuo under Stanley, as to be the Chief Adrand effort to crush the slave trade Fate intervened Gordon ypt, then in the throes of the Mahdist uprising

He went to his martyrdom at Khartoum, and Stanley continued his work alone in Central Africa

While Stanley established itstraditions, other heroic soldiers and explorers, contributed to the roll of fa theht the Arab slave traders at Stanley Falls and who figured in a succession of episodes that read like the most romantic fiction

With less than a hundred native troops recruited from the West Coast of Africa, he defended the State Station founded by Stanley at the Falls against thousands of Arab raiders Most of the caps in his rifle cartridges were rendered useless by dampness and the Captain and his second in coht shoulder to shoulder with his le that ensued

Subsequently practically all the natives deserted and Deane was left with Dubois and four loyal blacks Under cover of darkness they escaped from the island on which the Station was located On this journey Dubois was drowned

For thirty days Deane and his four faithful troopers wandered through the forests, hiding during the day froht On the thirtieth day he was captured by the savages Unar native stood over him with his spear poised for the fatal thrust A lishrasp hie two years before and had not been forgotten Deane and his companions were convoyed under an escort to Herbert Ward's camp and he was nursed back to health

Deane's death illustrates the irony that entered into the passing of so many African adventurers Twelve months after he was snatched froo in theelephants A wounded beast inition