To Menelek in a motor-car . uaa 0 a. 317 TO MENELEK IN A MOTOR-CAR of pulley blocks, and three natives were told tohang on to the end of each rope and pay it outgradually. Bentley sat in the car, alternately easingand holding the brakes, while Wells stood on theraft, waiting to lash the wheels with the ropes thatwere already fixed to the timber for the purpose. All went well at first, and the car was got on tothe raft with very little trouble. Half the boyswith Wells now crossed the river on the small raftthat they had constructed. A stout rope was takenwith them, the end of which was firmly s
To Menelek in a motor-car . uaa 0 a. 317 TO MENELEK IN A MOTOR-CAR of pulley blocks, and three natives were told tohang on to the end of each rope and pay it outgradually. Bentley sat in the car, alternately easingand holding the brakes, while Wells stood on theraft, waiting to lash the wheels with the ropes thatwere already fixed to the timber for the purpose. All went well at first, and the car was got on tothe raft with very little trouble. Half the boyswith Wells now crossed the river on the small raftthat they had constructed. A stout rope was takenwith them, the end of which was firmly securedto the front of the raft, while a second rope wasattached to the stern to prevent the raft swingingdown-stream. The lashings that held the raft to the road werecut adrift, and at a signal from Bentley, Wells and hisboys began to pull. They pulled for all they wereworth, while Bentley took a long pole to assist thestart. Wells and his niggers kept dancing a suffi-ciently ludicrous kind of war dance at the other endof t
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