From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north . I ADTAXCED WITH OUTSTKETCHED HAND. IN NUERLAND 303 me for another confounded Frenchman, and was trying to hunt up someFrench. All this six hundred odd miles from anywhere in the uttermostend of the earth—the Nile swamps. Yerily we are a strange De Tonquedec, the Frenchman, laughed at the tale! Then we dropped slowly down-stream in the boat, and in the light of themyriad stars discussed the strange world into which the Father Nile wasslowly carrying me. A whirl of thoughts made sleep impossible, and as I. PHOT
From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north . I ADTAXCED WITH OUTSTKETCHED HAND. IN NUERLAND 303 me for another confounded Frenchman, and was trying to hunt up someFrench. All this six hundred odd miles from anywhere in the uttermostend of the earth—the Nile swamps. Yerily we are a strange De Tonquedec, the Frenchman, laughed at the tale! Then we dropped slowly down-stream in the boat, and in the light of themyriad stars discussed the strange world into which the Father Nile wasslowly carrying me. A whirl of thoughts made sleep impossible, and as I. PHOTO OF AUTHOR TAKEN BY CAPTAIN DUNN TEN MINUTES AFTER ARRIVAL IN HIS CAMP. pondered over many things I thought long on the Fashoda incident. Inthe course of a chequered career I have seen many unwholesome spots;but for a God-forsaken, dry-sucked, fly-blown wilderness, commend me tothe Upper Nile; a desolation of desolations, an infernal region, a howlingwaste of weed, mosquitoes, flies, and fever, backed by a groaning waste ofthorn and stones—waterless and waterlogged. I have passed through it,and have now no fear for the hereafter. And for this choice spot thousandsof homes might have been wrecked, and the whole of civilization rushedinto a cockpit of mutual slaughter. Let me recommend France to send 304 FROM THE CAPE TO CAIRO the minister responsible for the Marchand expedition for a short sojourn inthe land: no fitter punishment could be found. What a sensible idea itwould be if ministers of rival nations, foreseeing a dispute, were to buy ina large store of choice wines and ci
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