Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest
Herbert Strang
Produced by Al Haines.
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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
