From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north . trip north a certain success; thiswith more personal advice on a score of points, lasted till Umtali, wherewe found so-called celebrations in fall swing. These celebrations (orbarmens benefits, as they should more appropriately be called), are ofcommon occurrence, and are invariably got up on any sort of excuse; theytake the outward form of a few pieces of bunting, and result in every onebut the licensed few finding themselves next morning considerably poorer,and in an abnormal demand for Seidlitz powders. Society at Um
From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north . trip north a certain success; thiswith more personal advice on a score of points, lasted till Umtali, wherewe found so-called celebrations in fall swing. These celebrations (orbarmens benefits, as they should more appropriately be called), are ofcommon occurrence, and are invariably got up on any sort of excuse; theytake the outward form of a few pieces of bunting, and result in every onebut the licensed few finding themselves next morning considerably poorer,and in an abnormal demand for Seidlitz powders. Society at Umtaligroups itself into two classes, those wdio have liquor and those who have not,and each into three divisions: first, a small number who have killed lionsand say very little about it; secondly, a large number of persons who havenot killed lions, but tell you they have, and say much about it; and thirdly,a very large number who have not killed lions, but think it necessary toapologize for the fact by telling you that they have not lost any. CHAPTER II THE PUXGWE FLATS. HARP had meanwhile arrived and gonedown to Fontesvilla, where he had metMr. Dan Mahom, the famous Nimrodof Portuguese East Africa, an old friendof mine, whom I had persuaded to joinus, and together they had collected boysand were only waiting for me to makea start. Mr. Mahony, who had onlyjust recovered from a severe shaking,administered by a cow-elephant, has hunted the Pungwe district for nineyears, and is well known as the great lion-slayer of that part of one knows the hunting-grounds between the Busi and the Zambesi ashe does, and as he is a keen observer, as w^ell as a first-class shikari, I onlyhope that he will yield to my persuasions, and some day give us a book ofhis experiences. On the first of May we started, and marching up the Dingi-Dingi (asthe northern loop of the Pungwe is called), and then up its tributary theUrema, arrived near Gorongozas hills, where we camped. On the roadwe came on
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