To Menelek in a motor-car . -ifek^ -•«*^;> Our stockaded camp in Camels feedins; on Mimosa. TO MENELEK IN A MOTOR-CAR it seemed to work the savages in front into a frenzyof excitement. They did not advance on the car,nor did they make a movement by way of retiring,but they danced about, gesticulating and talkingvigorously to each other, and as they were allarmed with a various assortment of spears, the matterof their conversation would have been interestingto our travellers if they had been near enough tohear and could have understood. When about thirty paces away from the fron
To Menelek in a motor-car . -ifek^ -•«*^;> Our stockaded camp in Camels feedins; on Mimosa. TO MENELEK IN A MOTOR-CAR it seemed to work the savages in front into a frenzyof excitement. They did not advance on the car,nor did they make a movement by way of retiring,but they danced about, gesticulating and talkingvigorously to each other, and as they were allarmed with a various assortment of spears, the matterof their conversation would have been interestingto our travellers if they had been near enough tohear and could have understood. When about thirty paces away from the frontranks, Bentley stopped the car, and turning to Wellssaid : Nice little lot—aint they ? Seem annoyedabout something, too. Better hitch on that oldinterpreter wallah and find out something about it. Wells slipped out of his seat just in time to catchGeorge—who, when the car stopped, was beginninga strategic movement to the rear—firmly by the ear,as he was vacating his seat, and led him gently tothe post of honour in front of the radiator. George, said Bentley, ask them w
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