. Lake Ngami, or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa . spear he is throwing. The upupa, heron, and other birds arefrightened from the rushes as the boat approaches; and thefish, with a young hippopotamus, seen at the bottom of thewater, are intended to show the communication of the fennylake with the Nile. The spear they used on these occasions was evidentlyof a different construction from that intended for ordinary THE SPEAR AND REEL. 501 purposes, and was furnished, as Diodorus observes, with arope for letting out the wounded animal
. Lake Ngami, or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa . spear he is throwing. The upupa, heron, and other birds arefrightened from the rushes as the boat approaches; and thefish, with a young hippopotamus, seen at the bottom of thewater, are intended to show the communication of the fennylake with the Nile. The spear they used on these occasions was evidentlyof a different construction from that intended for ordinary THE SPEAR AND REEL. 501 purposes, and was furnished, as Diodorus observes, with arope for letting out the wounded animal, in the same man-ner as practiced hy the modern Ethiopians;* there was.
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