Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . first visit was limited to three daj^s, during which time theadventurer explored the caves as far as possible; lamentingthat he was not permitted to enlarge certain passages whichwould have enabled him to explore what he supposed must bemuch longer and loftier rifts in the rocks. Their return route was the same, as far as Bloemhof, as thatby which they came. Passing over minor hunting adventures,we come to one the scene of which is laid in the
Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . first visit was limited to three daj^s, during which time theadventurer explored the caves as far as possible; lamentingthat he was not permitted to enlarge certain passages whichwould have enabled him to explore what he supposed must bemuch longer and loftier rifts in the rocks. Their return route was the same, as far as Bloemhof, as thatby which they came. Passing over minor hunting adventures,we come to one the scene of which is laid in the Maquassie DR. HOLUB, THE AUSTRIAN EXPLORER. 243 Hills; an account of which we quote, as it wastoldtoHolub: *The northern passes of the hills were being terribly rav-aged by four lions, that none of the Boers would venture toattack. At last, one day, a farmers son, having gone out tofetch home three of his horses, came riding back in great ex-citement, with the intelligence that he had found their car-casses all lying half-eaten in the grass. The foot-marks allaround left no doubt that the lions had been the perpetratorsof the Dangers of Midnight Traveling. The announcement stirred the Boers to action, and theydetermined to make up a party to hunt them down. Accord-ingly, the farmer-and six others, of whom Schmitt was one,mounted their horses; the son who had discovered the tracksbeing elected leader. The lion-track was soon found; it ledthrough a valley, across one hill, then another, and finally onto a level plain, where, not only was the grass very short, butthe. soil was so hard that the vestiges of the beasts could nolonger be distinguished. After some hesitation, it was agreedthat there was no alternative but to abandon the chase; and itis very probable that most of the party had found their ardor16
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