Identifier: throughdarkconti00henr (find matches)
Title: Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Henry M. Stanley
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Publisher: George Newnes
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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y set, he would have given his vote fordrowning him by hanging a great stone to his neck andpitching him into the river; but as it happened to be Uledi,he therefore proposed that he should receive a thoroughflogging, to deter others from repeating the crime. Thevotes of the chiefs were in accord with Manwa Seras, andthree-fourths of the people cried out for flogging. Then I turned to the boats crew, and said, Now, youboys, you who know Uledi so well, and have followed himlike children through a hundred rough scenes, speak, whatshall be done to him ? Mpwapwa, whose duty was to watch the boat in camp,and who was one of the most reliable and steady men, replied, Well, master, it is a hard question. Uledi is like om- elderbrother, and to give our voice for punishing him would belike asking you to jDunish ourselves. But the fathers of thepeople have demanded that he shall be beaten, and I am onlylike a boy among them. Yet, master, for our sakes beat himonly just a little. Mpwapwa has said.
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1877.) ULEDI ON THE TRIAL. 297 Aud you, IMarzouk—Uledis conipaniou on the rockat the fourth cataract of the Stanley Falls—what do yousay ? Verily, master, IMpwapwa has spoken what my tonguewould have uttered, yet 1 would say, remember it is Uledi. And you, Shumari, who are Uledis brother, whatpunishment shall I mete to this thief who would starveeverybody, you and me ? Ah, dear master, your words are as lead. Spare him 1It is true Uledi has stolen, and he has done very wrong. Heis always stealing, and I have scolded him often for it. Ihave never stolen. No man can accuse me of taking thatwhich did not belong to me, and I am but a boy, aud Ulediis my elder. But please, master, as the chiefs say he mustbe flogged, give me half of it; and knowing it is for Uledissake I shall not feel it. Now, Saywa, you are his cousin, what do you say ?Ought not Uledi to receive the severest punishment toprevent others from stealing ? Will the master give his slave liberty to speak ? Yes, say all tha

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