Modern travel, a record of exploration, travel . African Mimicry A native havino; seen a Hussars busby, tries to go one better bymaking a much lighter one out ot leaves and adding another In the Wake of the Slave Raiders A village raided by slave hunters, who have partially destroyed the huts and pitched away thecooking-pots. A solitary individual has crept back from his hiding-place to find his home desolateand all his relatives gone into slavery. Suicide is often the sequel. THE HAUNTS OF SLAVERY 137 he was gripped from behind by one of his men as heshouted, Look up there, master; do
Modern travel, a record of exploration, travel . African Mimicry A native havino; seen a Hussars busby, tries to go one better bymaking a much lighter one out ot leaves and adding another In the Wake of the Slave Raiders A village raided by slave hunters, who have partially destroyed the huts and pitched away thecooking-pots. A solitary individual has crept back from his hiding-place to find his home desolateand all his relatives gone into slavery. Suicide is often the sequel. THE HAUNTS OF SLAVERY 137 he was gripped from behind by one of his men as heshouted, Look up there, master; dont move ! He followed with his eyes to where the man pointed,and there just above him hung a horrible spear, weightedand suspended by a rope over the path, across which,hidden by grass, was a small string placed so that anyonewho touched it released the deadly spear. It was a gametrap. One glance was enough. Swann stepped off thepath, cut the string, and the instrument of death thun-dered down, burying its point in the path. The fiendhad jumped over the string, knowing that Swann wouldtrip up against it, and that the released spear wouldclose his mouth, and so the secret would be preserve
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