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COLUMBIA PRESENTING STANLEY TO EUROPEAN SOVEREIGNS, Colored Plate Frontis- piece

MARCHING THROUGH EQUATORIAL AFRICA 4

MAP OF CENTRAL AFRICA 16 and 17

HENRY M. STANLEY 18

THE BELLOWING HIPPOPOTAMI 23

SCENE ON LAKE TANGANYIKA 29

GATHERING TO MARKET AT NYANGWE 31

A SLAVE-STEALER’S REVENGE 34

BUFFALO AT BAY 38

FIGHT WITH AN ENRAGED HIPPOPOTAMUS 40

ROUNDING A PORTAGE 44

A NARROW ESCAPE 45

WHITE-COLLARED FISH-EAGLES 48

A TEMPORARY CROSSING 49

WEAVER-BIRDS’ NESTS 51

NATIVES’ CURIOSITY AT SIGHT OF A WHITE MAN 56

CAPTURING A CROCODILE 58

LIONS DRAGGING DOWN A BUFFALO 62

A FUNERAL DANCE 66

STANLEY’S FIGHT WITH BENGALA IN 1877 67

AFRICAN BLACK-SMITHS 71

AFRICAN HEADDRESSES 72

ORNAMENTED SMOKING PIPE 75

NIAM-NIAM HAMLET ON THE DIAMOONOO 76

NIAM-NIAM MINSTREL 79

NIAM-NIAM WARRIORS 79

RECEIVING THE BRIDE 81

A BONGO CONCERT 82

THE MASSACRE AT NYANGWE 90

KNIFE-SHEATH, BASKET, WOODEN-BOLSTER AND BEE-HIVE 96

RECEPTION BY AN AFRICAN KING 99

SACRIFICE OF SLAVES, Colored Plate 100

TIPPOO TIB’S GRAND CANOES GOING DOWN THE CONGO, FRONT 136

TIPPOO TIB’S GRAND CANOES GOING DOWN THE CONGO, REAR 137

HENRY M. STANLEY. From a Late Portrait 138

EMIN PASHA IN HIS TENT 142

NIAM-NIAM VILLAGE 146

CUTTING WOOD AT NIGHT FOR THE STEAMERS 149

INTERVIEW OF MAJOR BARTTELOT AND MR. JAMESON WITH TIPPOO TIB 149

AN AMBUSCADE 151

ELEPHANTS DESTROYING VEGETATION 157

THE CAPTURED BUFFALO 159

AFRICAN WARRIORS 159

ATTACK ON THE ENCAMPMENT 161

BEGINNING A HUT 164

STANLEY’S FIRST SIGHT OF EMIN’S STEAMER 165

THE SECOND STAGE 165

HUT COMPLETED IN AN HOUR 166

CAMP AT KINSHASSA, ON THE CONGO, WITH TIPPOO TIB’S HEADQUARTERS 170

SLAVE MARKET 180

LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY 185

THE ROSETTA STONE 188

DE LESSEPS 190

CLEOPATRA 191

PHAROS LIGHT 192

ALEXANDER, THE GREAT 193

CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE 193

THE SERAPEION 195

EGYPTIAN GOD 196

ROMAN CATACOMBS 196

MASSACRE OF MAMELUKES 199

VEILED BEAUTY 200

PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT 203

INTERIOR OF GREAT PYRAMID 204

THE SPHINX 206

STATUES OF MEMNON 210

RUINS IN THEBES 211

OBELISK OF KARNAK 213

SPHINX OF KARNAK 214

GATEWAY AT KARNAK 215

A MUMMY 216

TEMPLE AT EDFOU 217

ISIS ON PHILÆ 218

TEMPLE COURT, PHILÆ 220

TEMPLE AT IPSAMBUL 221

TEMPLE OF OSIRIS 222

TEMPLE OF ATHOR 224

ROCK TOMB OF BENI-HASSAN 226

EGYPTIAN BRICK FIELD 227

GROTTOES OF SAMOUN 228

A CHIEF’S WIFE 231

THE “FORTY THIEVES” 232

MOBBING A CROCODILE 234

RELEASING SLAVES 236

ATTACKED BY A HIPPOPOTAMUS 237

A SOUDAN WARRIOR 239

A NIGHT ATTACK 241

ELEPHANTS IN TROUBLE 242

SHAKING FRUIT 244

TABLE ROCK 245

NATIVE DANCE 246

ATTACK BY AMBUSCADE 248

HUNTING WITH FIRE 251

RESULTS OF FREEDOM 251

GORDON AS MANDARIN 253

PORTRAIT OF GORDON 256

PORTRAIT OF COLONEL BAKER 266

MAD’MLLE TINNE 268

LADY BAKER 270

SLAVE HUNTER’S VICTIM’S 271

WHITE NILE SWAMPS 274

CROSSING A SPONGE 276

PREPARING TO START 279

A ROYAL JOURNEY 291

MURCHISON FALLS 298

HENRY M. STANLEY 303

STANLEY ON THE MARCH 304

RUBAGA 314

SHOOTING A RHINOCEROS 328

LIVINGSTONE 330

LION ATTACKS LIVINGSTONE 333

CUTTING A ROAD 334

A BANYAN TREE 338

ANIMALS ON THE ZAMBESI 343

THE GONYE FALLS 344

HUNTING THE ELEPHANT 345

IN THE RAPIDS 348

VICTORIA FALLS 351

CHARGE OF A BUFFALO 355

NATIVE SLAVE HUNTERS 356

HUAMBO MAN AND WOMAN 359

SAMBO WOMAN 359

GANGUELA WOMEN 359

BIHE HEAD DRESS 361

QUIMBANDE GIRLS 361

CUBANGO HEAD-DRESS 361

LUCHAZE WOMAN 362

AMBUELLA WOMAN 362

SOVA DANCE 363

FORDING THE CUCHIBI 363

VICTORIA FALLS (BELOW) 365

ON TANGANYIKA 368

ANT HILL 371

GORILLAS 371

A SOKO HUNT 374

A DANGEROUS PRIZE 375

NYANGWE MARKET 378

STANLEY AT TANGANYIKA 380

STANLEY MEETS LIVINGSTONE 381

AFLOAT ON TANGANYIKA 382

DEEP-WATER FORDING 386

LAST DAY’S MARCH 388

DEATH OF LIVINGSTONE 389

THE KING’S MAGICIANS 390

A WEIR BRIDGE 395

FIGHTING HIS WAY 398

RESCUE OF ZAIDI 403

ATTACK BY THE BANGALA 405

IN THE CONGO RAPIDS 408

DEATH OF FRANK POCOCK 411

ZULUS 418

MY CATTLE WERE SAVED 420

BUFFALO HUNTERS 421

VILLAGE SCENE ON LAKE NYASSA 426

STORM ON LAKE NYASSA 434

AN ELEPHANT CHARGE 436

NATIVE HUNTERS KILLING SOKOS 446

AFRICAN ANT-EATER 446

TERRIBLE FIGHT OF AFRICAN MONARCHS, Colored Plate 446

QUICHOBO 446

THE “DEVIL OF THE ROAD,” ETC. 450

BUSH-BUCKS 450

NATIVE TYPES OF SOUTHERN SOUDAN 451

BARI OF GONDOKORO 453

CHASING GIRAFFES 457

NATIVE RAT-TRAP 463

AFRICAN HATCHET 464

NATIVES RUNNING TO WAR 466

UMBANGI BLACKSMITHS 469

NATIVES KILLING AN ELEPHANT 472

ON A JOURNEY IN THE KALAHARI DESERT 480

WOMEN CARRIERS 481

DRIVING GAME INTO THE HOPO 483

PIT AT END OF HOPO 483

CAPSIZED BY A HIPPOPOTAMUS 487

HUNTER’S PARADISE 488

BATLAPIN BOYS THROWING THE KIRI 492

PURSUIT OF THE WILD BOAR 492

RAIDING THE CATTLE SUPPLY 494

HUNTING ZEBRAS 497

DANGEROUS FORDING 503

A YOUNG SOKO 506

MANYUEMA WOMEN 510

TYPES OF AFRICAN ANTELOPES 515

BINKA CATTLE HERD 518

AFRICAN RHINOCEROS 534

ELEPHANT UPROOTING A TREE 540

COL. BAKER’S WAY OF REACHING BERBER 553

AFRICA METHODIST CONFERENCE 564

CHUMA AND SUSI 568

KING LOBOSSI 568

WEST AFRICAN MUSSULMAN 579

AN AFRICAN CHIEF 587

PORT AND TOWN OF ELMINA 592

COOMASSIE, THE CAPITAL OF ASHANTI 594

CANOE TRAVEL ON THE NIGER 598

MAP OF LIBERIA 604

METHODIST PARSONAGE OF AFRICA 606

AFRICAN VILLAGE AND PALAVER TREE 611

ST. PAUL DE LOANDA 618

FOREST SCENE IN ANGOLA 621

MUNDOMBES AND HUTS 626

NATIVE GRASS-HOUSE ON THE CONGO 629

SOME OF BISHOP TAYLOR’S MISSIONARIES 635

GARAWAY MISSION HOUSE 643

MAP OF ANGOLA 647

STEAM WAGONS FOR HAULING AT VIVI 659

REED DANCE BY MOONLIGHT 676

MISSION HOUSE AT VIVI 692

HUNTING THE GEMBOCK 696

BISHOP TAYLOR’S MISSIONS 699

A NATIVE WARRIOR 706

THE COILLARD CAMP 709

AT HOME AFTER THE HUNT 711

MOFFAT INSTITUTION—KURUMAN 713

MOFFAT’S COURAGE 715

NATIVES OF LARI AND MADI IN CAMP AT SHOO 719

TINDER-BOX, FLINT AND STEEL 726

A CARAVAN BOUND FOR THE INTERIOR 728

TRAVEL ON BULL-BACK AND NATIVE ESCORT 739

LEOPARD ATTACKING A SPRINGBOCK 747

A LION HUNT 757

NATIVE WAR DANCE 764

BUFFALO DEFENDING HER YOUNG 770

SEKHOMS AND HIS COUNSEL 774

AN INTERRUPTED JOURNEY 779

LIONS PULLIN DOWN A GIRAFFE 786

HUNTING LIONS 794

A DESPERATE SITUATION 797

DINING ON THE BANKS OF THE SHIRE 800

CENTRAL AFRICA AND THE CONGO BASIN. Larger: A. B. C. D. E. F.

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HENRY M. STANLEY.

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