Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . (755) 756 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. hoary-headed fellows, though well dressed enough, behaved in a most idiotic fashion, amazing me quite. Well, on this 5th of December we became suddenly smitten with madness in the same manner. Had you seen us you would have thought we had lost our senses, or that .Legion had entered and taken possession of us. We raced with our loads over a wide, unfenced f
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . (755) 756 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. hoary-headed fellows, though well dressed enough, behaved in a most idiotic fashion, amazing me quite. Well, on this 5th of December we became suddenly smitten with madness in the same manner. Had you seen us you would have thought we had lost our senses, or that .Legion had entered and taken possession of us. We raced with our loads over a wide, unfenced field (like an English park for the softness of its grass), and herds of buffalo, eland, roan antelope, stood on either hand with pointed ears and wide eyes, wondering at the sudden wave of human beings, yelling with joy, as they issued out of the dark depths of the forest. A Leprous Outcast. On the confines of this forest, near a village which was rich in sugarcane, ripe bananas, tobacco, Indian corn, and other productions of abo-riginal husbandry, we came across an ancient woman lying asleep. Ibelieve she was a leper and an outcast, but she was undoubtedly ugly,vicious, and old; and, being old, she
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