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Across Africa

Across Africa


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. LEAVING KIKOKA.—FORM OF CAMP.—MODE OF HUT BUILDING.—FORAGING FOR PROVISIONS.—A " 8HORT CUT."—BOMBAY AS A GUIDE.—A LUCKLESS CRUISE.—A NEEDLESS SCARE.—LEVY 01-' MHOXOO.— II8UWAH.— FORTIFIED VILLAGES.—AN ARTFUL DODGER.—AN ARAB CARAVAN.— OFFERINGS TO SPIRITS.—BAOBAB TREES.— KI8EMO.—THE LUOEBENGERI.—THE XUNGWA HILLS.—SIMBAWNI.—ITS QUEEN.—RUMOURED TERRORS OF THE MAKATA SWAMP. LAZY PORTERS. HONOUR AMONGST DESERTERS. fTURED of the innumerable delays we decided March, 1873. JL to start from Eikoka on the 28th of March. with whatever men we might have in camp, leaving such loads as we were unable to get carried in charge of the Balooch guard, to be afterwards sent for by Murphy. 1 turned the hands up at 5.30 A.M., and found that seven more pagazi had deserted during the night; this raised the total number of absentees to twenty-five, and so many more were skulking about the village and in the grass and jungle that it was ten o'clock before we made a move. It was altogether impossible to make the askari load the donkeys properly; in fact, to tell the truth, we were obliged to do the work ourselves whilst our men looked on in idleness. If left to themselves they tried to tie the crupper round the donkey's neck and placed the pad so that it March, afforded no protection whatever to the animal's 1873. back. For two hours and a half we marched across a lovely country of rolling grass-land interspersed with belts of timber, and every here and there small knolls crowned with clumps of trees and shrubs. Away on our right lay the chain of small hills whcre llosako and its neighbouring robber villages were situated, along the route which Stanley followed on his journey for the relief of Dr. Livingstone. We camped on the top of a small knoll, the huts of ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780548275641
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 576
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 1060 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0548275645
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 37 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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