Chapter XIX: Stanley’s Route to Victoria Nyanza

SPENDS CHRISTMAS AT ZINGEH -- THE RAINY SEASON SETS IN -- FAMINE
OR SCARCITY OF FOOD -- HALF RATIONS -- EXTORTIONATE CHIEFS LEVY
BLACKMAIL -- ARRIVAL AT JIWENI -- THROUGH JUNGLE TO KITALALO --
THE PLAIN OF SALINA -- “NOT A DROP OF WATER” -- BELLICOSE NATIVES
-- TROUBLE WITH MANY OF HIS FOLLOWERS -- VALUABLE SERVICES
RENDERED HIM BY FRANK AND EDWARD POCOCK AND FREDERICK BARKER --
FREQUENT QUARRELS -- THE TRIALS OF STANLEY -- CAMP AT MTIWI --
TERRIBLE RAIN STORM AND SAD PLIGHT OF STANLEY AND HIS PEOPLE --
MISLED BY HIS GUIDE, IS LOST IN A WILD OF LOW SCRUB AND BRUSH --
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES -- STARVATION IMPENDING -- SENDS FOR RELIEF
TO SUNA IN URIMI -- THE WELCOME MEAL OF OATMEAL -- A SINGULAR
COOKING UTENSIL -- DEATH OF EDWARD POCOCK -- THE WEARY MARCH FROM
THE WARIMI TO MGONGO TEMBE -- THE BEAUTIFUL USIHA -- REACHES
VICTORIA NYANZA FEBRUARY 27TH, 1875 -- ENTERS KAGEHYI -- RECEIVES
ITS HOSPITALITIES -- THE END OF A JOURNEY OF 720 MILES IN 103
DAYS 360

CHAPTER XX.

EXPLORATION OF VICTORIA NYANZA.

PREPARING THE _LADY ALICE_ FOR SEA -- SELECTS HIS CREW -- THE
START FOR THE CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF LAKE VICTORIA -- AFLOAT ON THE
LAKE -- A NIGHT AT UVUMA -- BARMECIDE FARE -- MESSAGE FROM MTESA
-- CAMP ON SOWEH ISLAND -- AN EXTRAORDINARY MONARCH -- MTESA,
EMPEROR OF UGANDA -- ARRIVAL AT THE IMPERIAL CAPITAL -- GLOWING
DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY -- A GRAND MISSION FIELD -- THE
TREACHERY OF BUMBIREH -- SAVED -- REFUGE ISLAND -- RETURN TO CAMP
AT KAGEHYI 372

CHAPTER XXI.

RETURNS TO UGANDA.

LEAVES KAGEHYI WITH HALF HIS EXPEDITION -- ARRIVAL AT REFUGE
ISLAND -- BRINGS UP THE REST -- ENCAMPED ON REFUGE ISLAND --
INTERVIEWED BY IROBA CANOES -- STANLEY’S FRIENDSHIP SCORNED --
THE KING OF BUMBIREH HELD AS A HOSTAGE -- THE MASSACRE OF KYTAWA
CHIEF AND HIS CREW -- THE PUNISHMENT OF THE MURDERERS -- ITS
SALUTARY EFFECT UPON THEIR NEIGHBORS -- ARRIVAL IN UGANDA -- LIFE
AND MANNERS IN UGANDA -- THE EMPEROR -- THE LAND -- _EN ROUTE_
FOR MUTA NZIGÉ -- THE WHITE PEOPLE OF GAMBARAGARA -- LAKE
WINDERMERE -- RUMANIKA, THE KING OF KARAGWÉ -- HIS COUNTRY -- THE
INGEZI -- THE HOT SPRINGS OF MTAGATA -- UBAGWÉ -- MSENÉ -- ACROSS
THE MALAGARAZI TO UJIJI -- SAD REFLECTIONS 389