Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . d so long searchedfor in vain. In retracing their steps to thewagon to report the good news they had unfor-tunately lost their way, and, after a fruitless*arch, were obliged to bivouac on the myself, they had repeatedly dischargedguns, but as this was done long after dark, it isprobable the wagon had by that time taken itsdeparture, so that their signals were unheardand unanswere
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . d so long searchedfor in vain. In retracing their steps to thewagon to report the good news they had unfor-tunately lost their way, and, after a fruitless*arch, were obliged to bivouac on the myself, they had repeatedly dischargedguns, but as this was done long after dark, it isprobable the wagon had by that time taken itsdeparture, so that their signals were unheardand unanswered. On the eighth day, late in the evening, Ireached Okaoa in safety, without the loss of asingle man or beast, all, however, being in a dreadful state of prostration,not only from fatigue and hardship, but from torn and lacerated , coupled with the impossibility of procuring trustworthy guides,with the evident dearth of water, the absence of game, and many otherformidable hinderances, induced me to face homeward without anyfurther delay than was necessary to recruit in a measure the strength andvigor of bipeds and quadrupeds. By a careful computation, I found that the distance was 115 hours. ;| CHIEF WITH REMARKABLEGOATEE. GALAXY OF RENOWNED EXPLORERS. 067 actual travel, which is equivalent to 300 English miles in round numbers,while in our last two fruitless attempts to push northward we had trav-elled one hundred and twenty hours, that is, about three hundred andthirty English miles—a distance more than sufficient to have brought usto the Cunene—nay, there and back again—had we been able to holdour course directly for that river. If I had been travelling in the North of Africa, for instance, crossingthe Nubian Desert, I could have availed myself of an animal that under-goes privation arising from want of water better than horses or camel is celebrated for its endurance. It seems to be constructed
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