. Across Africa. Indigenous peoples -- Africa, Central; Plants -- Africa, Central; Africa, Central -- Description and travel. v.] SHARP-EYED WAGOGO. 75 striking; for no tents being pitched or huts built, we all biv- June, ouacked in the open. 1873. Overhead was the sky, of a deep velvety blackness, studded with innumerable silver and golden stars; while the dusky fig- ures, moving about among the tires, formed a weird and effect- ive foreground, the smoke hanging like frosted silver among the tree-tops. Ugogo was reached the next day, after a very tiresome march of five hours across a country
. Across Africa. Indigenous peoples -- Africa, Central; Plants -- Africa, Central; Africa, Central -- Description and travel. v.] SHARP-EYED WAGOGO. 75 striking; for no tents being pitched or huts built, we all biv- June, ouacked in the open. 1873. Overhead was the sky, of a deep velvety blackness, studded with innumerable silver and golden stars; while the dusky fig- ures, moving about among the tires, formed a weird and effect- ive foreground, the smoke hanging like frosted silver among the tree-tops. Ugogo was reached the next day, after a very tiresome march of five hours across a country intersected by many nullahs, which in the rainy season are temporary streams. When we arrived within the limits of cultivation, our men, unable any longer to withstand the pangs of thirst, commenced gathering water-melons of a very inferior and bitter sort; but some sharp-eyed Wagogo detected them, and demanded about twenty times the value of what had been picked; and upon camping at noon, our beasts were not allowed to be watered until we had obtained leave by tAKTlIEN I'OT, 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 Cameron, Verney Lovett, 1844-1894; Oliver, Daniel, 1830-1916. New York : Harper & Bros.
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