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In
fact
,
two
dangers
were
to
be
feared
when
Dick
Sand
should
be
going
over
the
cataract
:
asphyxia
by
the
water
,
and
asphyxia
by
the
air
.
Now
,
this
overturned
hull
was
like
a
box
,
in
which
he
might
,
perhaps
,
keep
his
head
out
of
the
water
,
at
the
same
time
that
he
would
be
sheltered
from
the
exterior
air
,
which
would
certainly
have
stifled
him
in
the
rapidity
of
his
fall
.
In
these
conditions
,
it
seems
that
a
man
would
have
some
chance
of
escaping
the
double
asphyxia
,
even
in
descending
the
cataracts
of
a
Niagara
.
Dick
Sand
saw
all
that
like
lightning
.
By
a
last
instinct
he
clung
to
the
seat
which
united
the
two
sides
of
the
boat
,
and
,
his
head
out
of
the
water
,
under
the
capsized
hull
,
he
felt
the
irresistible
current
carrying
him
away
,
and
the
almost
perpendicular
fall
taking
place
.
The
boat
sank
into
the
abyss
hollowed
out
by
the
waters
at
the
foot
of
the
cataract
,
and
,
after
plunging
deep
,
returned
to
the
surface
of
the
river
.
Dick
Sand
,
a
good
swimmer
,
understood
that
his
safety
now
depended
on
the
vigor
of
his
arms
A
quarter
of
an
hour
after
he
reached
the
left
bank
,
and
there
found
Mrs.
Weldon
,
little
Jack
,
and
Cousin
Benedict
,
whom
Hercules
had
led
there
in
all
haste
.
But
already
the
cannibals
had
disappeared
in
the
tumult
of
the
waters
.
They
,
whom
the
capsized
boat
had
not
protected
,
had
ceased
to
live
even
before
reaching
the
last
depths
of
the
abyss
,
and
their
bodies
were
going
to
be
torn
to
pieces
on
those
sharp
rocks
on
which
the
under-current
of
the
stream
dashed
itself
.
Two
days
after
,
the
20th
of
July
,
Mrs.
Weldon
and
her
companions
met
a
caravan
going
toward
Emboma
,
at
the
mouth
of
the
Congo
.
These
were
not
slave
merchants
,
but
honest
Portuguese
traders
,
who
dealt
in
ivory
.
They
made
the
fugitives
welcome
,
and
the
latter
part
of
the
journey
was
accomplished
under
more
agreeable
conditions
.
The
meeting
with
this
caravan
was
really
a
blessing
from
Heaven
.
Dick
Sand
would
never
have
been
able
to
descend
the
Zaire
on
a
raft
.
From
the
Falls
of
Ntamo
,
as
far
as
Yellala
,
the
stream
was
a
succession
of
rapids
and
cataracts
.
Stanley
counted
seventy-two
,
and
no
boat
could
undertake
to
pass
them
.
It
was
at
the
mouth
of
the
Congo
that
the
intrepid
traveler
,
four
years
later
,
fought
the
last
of
the
thirty-two
combats
which
he
waged
with
the
natives
.
Lower
down
,
in
the
cataracts
of
Mbelo
,
he
escaped
death
by
a
miracle
.
On
the
11th
of
August
,
Mrs.
Weldon
,
Dick
Sand
,
Jack
,
Hercules
,
and
Cousin
Benedict
arrived
at
Emboma
.
Messrs.
Motta
Viega
and
Harrison
received
them
with
generous
hospitality
.
A
steamer
was
about
sailing
for
the
Isthmus
of
Panama
.
Mrs.
Weldon
and
her
companions
took
passage
in
it
,
and
happily
reached
the
American
coast
.
A
despatch
sent
to
San
Francisco
informed
Mr.
Weldon
of
the
unlooked-for
return
of
his
wife
and
his
child
.
He
had
vainly
searched
for
tidings
of
them
at
every
place
where
he
thought
the
"
Pilgrim
"
might
have
been
wrecked
.
