Our houseboat on the Nile . ? ^1 It K TRACKING 63 There is but one difficulty about ouramusing ourselves with our shot-guns, andthat is that we have seen scarcely anythingto shoot. One beautiful kingfisher, whichit would have been a pity to molest, and alittle black irma have been the only flyingthings we have sighted. The irma remindedus of a Cairo donkey-boy, for he was blackall over, with the exception of a white top-knot which suggested a cotton , in his innocence, went so far as to hopalong a gun-barrel and look down the muz-zle, — innocent young thing to play withfire; thi
Our houseboat on the Nile . ? ^1 It K TRACKING 63 There is but one difficulty about ouramusing ourselves with our shot-guns, andthat is that we have seen scarcely anythingto shoot. One beautiful kingfisher, whichit would have been a pity to molest, and alittle black irma have been the only flyingthings we have sighted. The irma remindedus of a Cairo donkey-boy, for he was blackall over, with the exception of a white top-knot which suggested a cotton , in his innocence, went so far as to hopalong a gun-barrel and look down the muz-zle, — innocent young thing to play withfire; this time he did nt get hurt, but sometime he may. There seems to be a lamb in distress some-where on shore; though invisible he can bedistinctly heard, as we move along at a rateof about a mile an hour. No wonder wecannot see him, for when AUi is called, hetells us that the lamb is in our own hold; thathe was bought last night by the crew, whoare to fatten him on the voyage and kill himat Wady-Halfa. How old will he be beforewe
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