Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . beast stood quietly feeding in thebush; and I also shot a bitch-fox, * * * whose ill-omenedcry often alarms the natives by forewarning them of was rather tame sport; but next day I had better fun,1^ 180 SEAKCH FOR THE NILE SOURCES *Starting in the early morning, accompanied by two ofSheikh Saids boys, Suliman and Faraj, each carrying a rifle,while I carried a shot-gun, w^e followed a foot-path to thewestward in the wilderness of Mgunda Mkhali. T
Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . beast stood quietly feeding in thebush; and I also shot a bitch-fox, * * * whose ill-omenedcry often alarms the natives by forewarning them of was rather tame sport; but next day I had better fun,1^ 180 SEAKCH FOR THE NILE SOURCES *Starting in the early morning, accompanied by two ofSheikh Saids boys, Suliman and Faraj, each carrying a rifle,while I carried a shot-gun, w^e followed a foot-path to thewestward in the wilderness of Mgunda Mkhali. There, afterwalking a short while in the bush, as I heard the grunt of abuffalo close on my left, I took Blissett in hand, andwalked to where I soon espied a large herd quietly were quite unconscious of my approach, so I took a shotat a cow, and wounded her; then, after reloading, put a ballin a bull, and staggered him also. This caused great con-fusion among them; but, as none of the animals knew wherethe shots came from, they simply shifted about in a fidgetymanner, allowing me to kill the first cow, and even to fire a. Suliman Gets into a Tree Quick. fourth shot, which sickened the great bull, and induced himto walk off, leaving the herd to their fate, who, considerablypuzzled, began moving off also. *I now called up the boys, and determined on followingthe herd dow^n before either skinning the dead cow or follow-ing the bull, who, I knew, could not go far. Their foot-prints being well defined in the moist sandy soil, we soonfound the herd again; but, as they now knew they were pur-sued, they kept moving on in short runs at a time, when, oc-casionally gaining glimpses of their large dark bodies as theyforced through the bush, I repeated my shots and struck agood number, some more and some less severely. This was veryprovoking; for all of them, being stern shots, were not likely tokill; and the jungle was so thick I could not get a front view BY BURTON, SPEKE AND
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