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 .. . gbeneath the trees, fanning themselves with their large ears. A numberalso of red-colored pigs were seen. The people having no guns, they arenever disturbed, A night was spent in a huge baobab-tree, which would hold twentymen inside. As they moved on, a herd of buffaloes came strutting up tolook at their oxen, and only by shooting one could they be made to afterwards a femal
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 .. . gbeneath the trees, fanning themselves with their large ears. A numberalso of red-colored pigs were seen. The people having no guns, they arenever disturbed, A night was spent in a huge baobab-tree, which would hold twentymen inside. As they moved on, a herd of buffaloes came strutting up tolook at their oxen, and only by shooting one could they be made to afterwards a female elephant, with three young ones, chargedthrough the centre of their extended line, when the men, throwing downtheir burdens, retreated in a great hurry, she receiving a spear for hertemerity. They were made aware of their approach to the great river by the vastnumber of waterfalls which appeared. It was found to be much broaderthan above the falls : a person might attempt in vain to make his voiceheard across it. An immense amount of animal life was seen both aroundand in it. Pursuing their down the left bank, they came opposite theisland of Menyemakaba, which is about two miles long and a quarter. (143) r44 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. broad. Besides its human population it supports a herd of sixty comparatively small space to which the animals have confined them-selves shows the luxuriance of the vegetation The only time that thenatives can attack them is when the river is full and part is flooded: theythen assail them from their canoes. Both buffalo and elephants are numerous. To kill them the nativesform stages on high trees overhanging the paths by which they cometo the water. From thence they dart down their spears, the blades ofwhich are twenty inches long by two broad, when the motion of thehandle, aided by knocking against the trees, makes fearful gashes whichsoon cause death. They form also a species of trap. A spear insertedin a beam of wood is suspended fro
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