. African game trails;. Hunting. DOWN THE NILE ; THE GIANT EEAND 529 villages of Shilluks and other tribes, mostly cattle-owners; some showing slight traces of improvement, others utter savages, tall, naked men, bearing bows and arrows. Our Egyptian and Nubian crew recalled to my mind the crew of the daha- biah on which as a boy I had gone up the Egyptian Nile thirty-seven years before; es- pecially when some piece of work was being done by the crew as they chant- ed in grunting chorus *' Ya allah, ul ; As we went down the Nile we kept see- ing more and more of the birds which I rem
. African game trails;. Hunting. DOWN THE NILE ; THE GIANT EEAND 529 villages of Shilluks and other tribes, mostly cattle-owners; some showing slight traces of improvement, others utter savages, tall, naked men, bearing bows and arrows. Our Egyptian and Nubian crew recalled to my mind the crew of the daha- biah on which as a boy I had gone up the Egyptian Nile thirty-seven years before; es- pecially when some piece of work was being done by the crew as they chant- ed in grunting chorus *' Ya allah, ul ; As we went down the Nile we kept see- ing more and more of the birds which I remembered, one species after an- other appearing; familiar cow-her- ons, crocodile plo- ver, noisy spur- wing plover, black- and-white king- fishers, hoopoos, green bee-eaters, black-and-white chats, desert larks, and trumpeter bullfinches. At night we sat on deck and watched the stars and the dark, lonely river. The swimming crocodiles and plung- ing hippos made whirls and wakes of feeble light that glimmered for a moment against the black water. The unseen birds of the marsh and the night called to one. Slatin Pasha, from the roof of the Khalifa's palace, shows how he made his escape from Omdurman From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. New York, London, Syndicate publishing company
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