Through Jungle and Desert: Travels in Eastern AfricaMacmillan and Company, 1896 - 535 Seiten |
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Seite 112 - Came back again for that! before it left, The dying sunset kindled through a cleft: The hills, like giants at a hunting, lay, Chin upon hand, to see the game at bay, "Now stab and end the creature to the heft!
Seite 386 - ... their loads and running in all directions. One of these charges proved fatal. It was in the ac early morning; the sun had just appeared above the horizon, and our path lay through a small opening in the bush, perhaps ten acres in extent. We were in need of meat, and seeing a giraffe in front I fired a shot at it from my Winchester. The report awoke two rhinoceroses taking a morning nap, not fifty feet to the left of the caravan, and in close proximity to the porters. In a moment loud cries of...
Seite 294 - They were a tall, thin race, reddish brown in colour, with soft, straight, and closely cropped hair, features almost Caucasian in their regularity, and fierce blue eyes. They were clad in well-tanned robes of goat or sheep skin, which they threw gracefully over their shoulders. They were armed with short spears, or well-made bows of a shape very different from those I had heretofore seen in East Africa, the ends being curved outward, as in the Asiatic bow, and their arrows were not tipped with poison....
Seite 239 - As to the means of transporting baggage, guns, and ammunition, there were few horses to be had, but with money we might get all we wanted ; indeed, the peasants constantly referred to this means of success, even to asking...
Seite 384 - I can conjure up nothing but a nightmare of continuous horror and anxiety. The anxiety was occasioned by the sufferings of my friend ; the horror was caused by the fact that during this entire march, from Sayer until we reached Daitcho, all the rhinoceroses in East Africa seemed to have clustered about our pathway, and to have religiously devoted all their attentions and energies to charging us as frequently as possible.
Seite 386 - He fell just three paces from where I stood. Not knowing where I had struck him, and seeing him fall, I thought he was dead ; but when I approached him, he rose on his hind legs, and supported himself with his head, madly snorting all the while. Seeing he could not move, I left him, and ran back to see what had happened in the rear of the caravan.
Seite 249 - The inhabitants of this mountain range, like all East Africans who are not as yet converted to Christianity or Mohammedanism, had no clear idea of the Deity. They supposed there was a Supreme Being of some sort, and that it was their duty to propitiate this Being before starting upon any enterprise. He was supposed to be a stern God, and, as far as I could gather, not altogether just ; but in no small measure open to the benign influence of bribery.
Seite 251 - ... of the enterprise under consideration. The strips of leather were used after the following manner. One strip was held in each hand, and the seer, closing his eyes, danced back and forth for a time, repeating words of supposed magic import, meanwhile beating the strips together. After a time a...