. The story of Africa and its explorers. ^Next year the region between the Mababi,Machabi, and Kwando Rivers, as far as Mai-inis. CHARACTERISTIC PORTION OP SELOUS ROAD.(From a Photograph hy Mr. Ellerton Fry.) starved for food. Fever did its work, so thatit was with great trouble that Selous andhis companion could again reach the friendly * Not to be confounded with, the Manika country inSouth-Eastern Africa. was hunted over. At that time buffaloes,lechwe antelopes, and other animals were veryplentiful, though even then game had beendriven beyond the m ore frequented part of Mata-beleland. Yet
. The story of Africa and its explorers. ^Next year the region between the Mababi,Machabi, and Kwando Rivers, as far as Mai-inis. CHARACTERISTIC PORTION OP SELOUS ROAD.(From a Photograph hy Mr. Ellerton Fry.) starved for food. Fever did its work, so thatit was with great trouble that Selous andhis companion could again reach the friendly * Not to be confounded with, the Manika country inSouth-Eastern Africa. was hunted over. At that time buffaloes,lechwe antelopes, and other animals were veryplentiful, though even then game had beendriven beyond the m ore frequented part of Mata-beleland. Yet less than twenty years before, the 218 THE 8T0BY OF AFRICA. missionaries at Inyati, the most advancedstation of the London Missionary Society, wereoften called by the natives to drive theelephants out of their cornfields. Buffaloesand rhinoceroses were continually seen goingdown to drink in the afternoon. Lions roarednightly round the house, and frequentlyquenched their thirst at a reedy pool notmore than two hundred yards from the door-step of the mission quarters. On thisjourney Selous crossed the Kwando during avery dry
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