. Across Africa. Indigenous peoples -- Africa, Central; Plants -- Africa, Central; Africa, Central -- Description and travel. 64 ACROSS AFEICA. [Chap. May, 1873. Murphy had a double-barreled No. 10 fowling-piece and a No. 12 of Lang's, which poor Moffat bought at Zanzibar. Our men were provided with six navy and thirty-two artil- lery Sniders; and Issa, Bombay, and Bilal carried revolvers. Many of our pagazi also had flint-lock. Tower, or French trade- muskets, and every man not otherwise armed a spear or bow and arrows. The donkeys had all been elaborately named at Bagamoyo; but the only two
. Across Africa. Indigenous peoples -- Africa, Central; Plants -- Africa, Central; Africa, Central -- Description and travel. 64 ACROSS AFEICA. [Chap. May, 1873. Murphy had a double-barreled No. 10 fowling-piece and a No. 12 of Lang's, which poor Moffat bought at Zanzibar. Our men were provided with six navy and thirty-two artil- lery Sniders; and Issa, Bombay, and Bilal carried revolvers. Many of our pagazi also had flint-lock. Tower, or French trade- muskets, and every man not otherwise armed a spear or bow and arrows. The donkeys had all been elaborately named at Bagamoyo; but the only two that retained them were Dillon's and my rid- ing donkeys, the Philosopher and Jenny Lind. The three dogs, which were a great delight to us, were Leo, a large, rough nondescript, bought at Zanzibar, my special friend, and a great wonder among all the natives on account of his size and appearance; Mabel or May, Dillon's dog, a bull-terrier given him by Mr. Schultze, the German consul at Zanzibar; and Rixie, a very pretty brindled fox-terrier, brought by Murphy from Aden. On the 29th of May every thing was ready, and we hoped to make a fair start on the following morning. Murphy was only partially recovered from fever, and I was still lame; but Dillon was perfectly well, and we were all full of hope for the AFBIOAK FlUE-I' Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cameron, Verney Lovett, 1844-1894; Oliver, Daniel, 1830-1916. New York : Harper & Bros.
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