Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest Read online

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  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, isanother book for your shelf. No mailed knights this time; our story isof the present day. Yet you shall find paynim hordes as many and asfierce as you please; yes, and chivalry itself, or I am muchmistaken,--although we may not spell it with a capital C. For it is atheory of mine--"Old Uncle and his theories!" I hear you say!--that thespirit of chivalry is as much alive to-day as ever, and finds as free ascope. And if chivalry is, as I take it to be, the championing of theweak and the oppressed, no region of the world offers a wider field thanCentral Africa, where there is still ample work for the countrymen ofLivingstone and Gordon. Some day, perhaps, you may yourself visit thatland, and come back with as deep a sense of its glamour and pathos asthe rest of us. Meanwhile, since even at Harrow the sky is not alwaysclear, why not on some rainy afternoon pack up your traps and transportyourself in imagination to Uganda with Tom Burnaby? If you return witha certain stock of information about the land and its people--well, yourold uncle will be all the better pleased. Not, of course, that thistrip 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 MELEE 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