. Scouting for Stanley in East Africa . rns set on knobs, or from acommon center shoot forth several formidable spikes,three inches long. The African bush may be said tobear thorns instead of leaves. In the matter of the boma, the porters sense of dan-ger is usually suiTicient to stimulate him to unwontedactivity, and a hundred men, some with axes choppingdown and the others dragging them in and arrangingthem in a circle, tops outward, soon put the camp inan efficient state of defense. Our boma was on a strip of open pasture, throughwhich meandered a tiny rivulet. The population ofseveral kraa
. Scouting for Stanley in East Africa . rns set on knobs, or from acommon center shoot forth several formidable spikes,three inches long. The African bush may be said tobear thorns instead of leaves. In the matter of the boma, the porters sense of dan-ger is usually suiTicient to stimulate him to unwontedactivity, and a hundred men, some with axes choppingdown and the others dragging them in and arrangingthem in a circle, tops outward, soon put the camp inan efficient state of defense. Our boma was on a strip of open pasture, throughwhich meandered a tiny rivulet. The population ofseveral kraals visited us, and made our presence theoccasion of a general turn-out and sight-seeing. Four bands of El-Moran came dancing and drum-ming, chanting and evoluting up to our camp, one afteranother, to demand their hongo. The day was bright,and with my Hawkeye detective camera I crouched be-hind the scattering bushes and took instantaneous])hotographs of the bands as they came prancing were the savage gentlemen, whose reputation. INTO MASAI-LAND 97 for annihilating caravans and stabbing porters made itso exceedingly difficult to drag the latter out of suchsafe havens as Taveta, and gives you endless troubleto prevent them stampeding at their very shadows,and bolting like demoralized mules. Behold these people, then, of whom we have heardso much, on that grassy knoll, outlined in bold reliefagainst the gray clouds. One of them seems to bedelivering an oration; and if his words are but half soeloquent as his gestures, depend upon it they are asworthy of your ear as an after-dinner speech fromChauncey M. Depew. Now, like a member of Con-gress, a second warrior rises to explain. Numberone motions him to resume his seat. Just three words,Mr. Speaker; only three words, upon my !—sit down; youre out of order, I tell two, realizing the justice of the rebuke, fallsback without another word and squats beside his speaker who has the floor, as though t
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