From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north . discomforts, and those glorious days of my life are already dim in the hazeof the past. Here I stand, in the prosaic land of certainty and respecta-bility ! But far, far away, on those Urema flats, where the night-windsighs to the grazing herds, my thoughts soar to the plaintive wail of theHsh-eaglc, and my heart throbs in unison w^ith the vast sob-sob of thegrandest of all created beasts, that mighty sound that is the very spiritof the veldt, the great untrammelled field of Nature, far from all carkingcares, pettiness,
From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north . discomforts, and those glorious days of my life are already dim in the hazeof the past. Here I stand, in the prosaic land of certainty and respecta-bility ! But far, far away, on those Urema flats, where the night-windsighs to the grazing herds, my thoughts soar to the plaintive wail of theHsh-eaglc, and my heart throbs in unison w^ith the vast sob-sob of thegrandest of all created beasts, that mighty sound that is the very spiritof the veldt, the great untrammelled field of Nature, far from all carkingcares, pettiness, hypocrisy, and cant: where men may stretch themselves ingenerous emulation, find their apportioned level, humbly worship at thegreat shrine of creation, and laugh at Stigginses, ladies of an acid visage,Grundies and Chants, as dyspeptic visions of an impossible
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