TOM BURNABY
Reading edition
Produced by Al Haines.
Cover
A Warm Reception. (See page 46.)
TOM BURNABY
A STORY OF UGANDA AND THE GREAT CONGO FOREST
BY
HERBERT STRANG
NEW EDITION
What good gift have my brothers, but it came
From search and strife and loving sacrifice?
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD
HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW TORONTO, MELBOURNE, CAPE TOWN, BOMBAY
REPRINTED 1922 IN GREAT BRITAIN BY MORRISON AND GIBB LTD., EDINBURGH
MY DEAR JACK,
Your birthday has come round again--and here, with every good wish, is another book for your shelf. No mailed knights this time; our story is of the present day. Yet you shall find paynim hordes as many and as fierce as you please; yes, and chivalry itself, or I am much mistaken,--although we may not spell it with a capital C. For it is a theory of mine--"Old Uncle and his theories!" I hear you say!--that the spirit of chivalry is as much alive to-day as ever, and finds as free a scope. And if chivalry is, as I take it to be, the championing of the weak and the oppressed, no region of the world offers a wider field than Central Africa, where there is still ample work for the countrymen of Livingstone and Gordon. Some day, perhaps, you may yourself visit that land, and come back with as deep a sense of its glamour and pathos as the rest of us. Meanwhile, since even at Harrow the sky is not always clear, why not on some rainy afternoon pack up your traps and transport yourself in imagination to Uganda with Tom Burnaby? If you return with a certain stock of information about the land and its people--well, your old uncle will be all the better pleased. Not, of course, that this trip should be a reason for neglecting your football--or other duties!
Your affectionate uncle,
HERBERT STRANG.
Contents
KABAMBARI
CHAPTER I
FITTING OUT AN EXPEDITION
CHAPTER II
MBUTU
CHAPTER III
ON THE VICTORIA NYANZA
CHAPTER IV
A STERN CHASE
CHAPTER V
A LONG MARCH
CHAPTER VI
UNMASKED
CHAPTER VII
AMBUSCADING AN AMBUSH
CHAPTER VIII
IN THE TOILS
CHAPTER IX
GONE AWAY!
CHAPTER X
THE LAND OF THE PIGMIES
CHAPTER XI
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
CHAPTER XII
BIG MEDICINE
CHAPTER XIII
BLOOD-BROTHERHOOD
CHAPTER XIV
THE SIEGE OF BAREGA'S
CHAPTER XV
ARMS AND THE MAN
CHAPTER XVI
THE MAKING OF AN ARMY
CHAPTER XVII
TREACHERY
CHAPTER XVIII
THE GREAT FIGHT
CHAPTER XIX
TOM'S ARMADA
CHAPTER XX
AN END AND A BEGINNING
ZANZIBAR
Illustrations
PLATE I
A WARM RECEPTION . . . . . . Frontispiece
PLATE II
A MÊLÉE IN THE FOREST
PLATE III
TOM SURPRISES MABRUKI
PLATE IV
TOM IN THE BREACH
PLATE V
THE FIGHT ON THE LAKE
Plans
PLAN I
THE BATTLE OF IMUBINGA
PLAN II
BAREGA'S VILLAGE DURING THE SIEGE
PLAN III
THE GREAT FIGHT BY THE SWAMP