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antelopes arrived Bangalas bank boat Brazzaville buffaloes bull bullet bush Cabinda camp canoe caravan carriers chief close cloth commenced Congo Congo Free crossed Deane distance elephants feeding fetish fire followed forests fowls fresh spoor gave getting give goats gorilla grass Haussas head heard Herbert Ward herd hill hippo hippopotami hundred yards hunting Ingham island ivory killed Kinshassa Kroo boys Kwamouth kwanga Kwango river Kwilu river launch leaving Lemba Leopoldville loads Loango looked Luemme Lukungu Makoko Manyanga Matadi meat miles morning N'Kula natives nearly night paddle palaver partridges passed plain plantation plenty rifle road round sandbank seen sent shooting shot side soon spot Stanley Pool started station steamer stopped stream Subila swamp Swinburne tent took tracker trees turned tusks village Vivi wait walk waterbuck whilst wood wounded Zanzibari
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Page 307 - ... greatly dislike their profanation by the visits of strangers. At all events, I had no sooner set up my theodolite near the chulpa, than the Indians began collecting from all quarters, till I was surrounded by more than two hundred enraged natives. I was alone at the time with one half-breed muleteer, and it was only by the skin of my teeth that I ultimately escaped, abandoning in the hands of the Indians the theodolite, which I fortunately had just time to pack up in its box, and riding away...
Page 26 - They are very plump and fat at this time, and excellent eating. They are, in my opinion, without doubt, the fastest flying pigeons that I have ever come across, and took good shooting to make anything of a bag...