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Page 59
... safari from the sale of my ivory , I proceeded to discharge my Baganda porters and to engage in their place Wanyamweze . Bagandas being banana - eaters had shown themselves to be good lads enough , but poor " doers on ground millet ...
... safari from the sale of my ivory , I proceeded to discharge my Baganda porters and to engage in their place Wanyamweze . Bagandas being banana - eaters had shown themselves to be good lads enough , but poor " doers on ground millet ...
Page 76
... safari chronicler became once more his joyous self and his impromptu verse became longer and longer each night . The chronicler's job is to render into readily chanted metre all the important doings of the safari and its members . It is ...
... safari chronicler became once more his joyous self and his impromptu verse became longer and longer each night . The chronicler's job is to render into readily chanted metre all the important doings of the safari and its members . It is ...
Page 99
... safari . Crossing the mouth of Mahagi Port , and never dreaming that they would have put in there , what should I see through my glasses but my large dug - out lying on the beach , abandoned . I entered to investigate , but could see ...
... safari . Crossing the mouth of Mahagi Port , and never dreaming that they would have put in there , what should I see through my glasses but my large dug - out lying on the beach , abandoned . I entered to investigate , but could see ...
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THE BODY SHOT AT ELEPHANT | 2 |
AFRICAN MEDICINE OR WITCHCRAFT AND ITS BEARING ON SPORT | 12 |
KARAMOJO I INTO THE UNKNOWN | 20 |
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