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 .. . with few trees, where any attack against our gunswould have been madness. In the evening we arrived at two small deserted villages ; these, likemost in the Bari country, were circular, and surrounded by a live andimpenetrable fence of euphorbia, having only one entrance. The traderspeople camped in one, while I took up my quarters in the other. Thesun had sunk, and the night being pitch dar
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 .. . with few trees, where any attack against our gunswould have been madness. In the evening we arrived at two small deserted villages ; these, likemost in the Bari country, were circular, and surrounded by a live andimpenetrable fence of euphorbia, having only one entrance. The traderspeople camped in one, while I took up my quarters in the other. Thesun had sunk, and the night being pitch dark, we had a glorious fire,around which we placed our couches opposite the narrow entrance ofthe camp, about ten yards distant. Surrounded toy Hostile Natives. I stationed as sentry outsidd the gateway, as he was the mostreliable of my men, and I thought it extremely probable that we mightbe attacked during the night; three other sentries I placed on guard atvarious stations. Dinner being concluded, Mrs. Baker lay down on hercouch for the night. I drew the balls from a doubled-barrelled smoothbore rifle, and loaded with cartridge containing each twenty large-mould » 1 V - *Sk .—, If ^ J-. (495) 496 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. shot (about a hundred to the pound); putting this under my pillow Iwent to sleep. Hardly had I begun to rest, when my men woke me,saying that the camp was surrounded by natives. Upon inquiry I foundthis to be correct : it was so dark that they could not be seen withoutstooping to the ground, and looking along the surface. I ordered thesentries not to fire unless hostilities should commence on the side of thenatives, and in no case to draw trigger without a challenge. Returning to the couch I laid down, and not wishing to sleep, I smokedmy long Unyoro pipe. In about ten minutes—bang ! went a shot,quickly followed by another from the sentry at the entrance of the rising from my bed, I found Richarn reloading at his post. What is it, Ric
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