From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north . he lions in front. Following, and climbing up an ant-hill, asthe first streak of light clove the sky, I saw them jumping into the airand looking towards me; then they ambled off, and though I followed hardI never saw them again. Sharp put the finishing touch to our successat this camp by bagging a splendid bull eland, and as the officials of aso-called Gorongoza Development Co., with its headquarters on the Dingi-Dingi, had seized our boys on their way to Fontesvilla with troj)hies, andill-used them, we marched to the P
From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north . he lions in front. Following, and climbing up an ant-hill, asthe first streak of light clove the sky, I saw them jumping into the airand looking towards me; then they ambled off, and though I followed hardI never saw them again. Sharp put the finishing touch to our successat this camp by bagging a splendid bull eland, and as the officials of aso-called Gorongoza Development Co., with its headquarters on the Dingi-Dingi, had seized our boys on their way to Fontesvilla with troj)hies, andill-used them, we marched to the Pungwe, wdiere I branched off to arrangematters, the others following the river towards Sarmento. I found sevenor eight yellow-visaged creatures, a Portuguese-French mixture, who inthree years had disposed of a capital of, I believe, some hundreds ofthousands of francs, with the stupendous result of an asset comprising aboutfifty acres of castor oil (one of the most ineradicable weeds of the country).The Governor, who was very polite, told me that he was entitled to levy. 38 FROM THE CAPE TO CAIRO shooting licences, and after some talk we closed the matter with a paymentof £10, which I should advise the shareholders of the GorongozaDevelopment Co, to keep an eye on, as it is the only return they are everlikely to see. He also told me that he should like a lion hunt, and hadeven sat up by his fowl-house for that purjDose; not long after we methim, vinously inclined, in Beira—the cheque had been cashed. On thePungwe we watched some native blacksmiths at work. Several of theirtools were very ingenious. Marching across the Muda Cheri, a tributaryof the Pungwe, we found our intended camp tenanted by Captain CooperSmith, , with a terrific thing from Durban, who once having ascendedfifty miles up the Pungwe in a punt had given himself out as anaccomplished shikari, who knew the Pungwe country. B}^ way of im-pressing me with his knowledge, he jDointed out an old hippo spoor, ands
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