This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... heard. Once it happened to be at a poor old elephant which was crashing about in the grass; luckily their shooting was not very good, and the Albini rifle is not a very deadly weapon, so the animal escaped. Our miserable porters, brought from peaceful Toro into this barbarous land, were gibbering with terror most of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... heard. Once it happened to be at a poor old elephant which was crashing about in the grass; luckily their shooting was not very good, and the Albini rifle is not a very deadly weapon, so the animal escaped. Our miserable porters, brought from peaceful Toro into this barbarous land, were gibbering with terror most of the time. Our wounded suffered such mishandling during those days as would have killed a white man a dozen times over. The corpse of the mutilated soldier, which his comrades insisted on taking home for burial, after being carried under a blazing sun for three days, became a member of the caravan which can better be imagined than described, so that there was not one of us who was not glad enough to see the broad waters of the Semliki again, and the houses of Fort Beni upon the hill beyond. From information which we obtained at Beni, we learnt that the misdirected attentions which we received from the Ruwenzori natives were due to the machinations of a certain Kengele, the biggest chief in the Semliki Valley, who has always been an evilly disposed person. If he is not his Dracaenas and Wild Bananas, Ruwenzori, West. To face page 150. A BROKEN ROAD 151 son, he is the same Tenge-Tenge whose people interrupted the expedition of Mr. Scott Elliot several years previously; and it is an interesting and noteworthy fact that, before that date, a German camp was for a long time established in his dominions. A few weeks after our departure from Beni, Lieutenant B and another officer set out on a punitive expedition against these people, and we were glad to hear that Kengele made a graceful and (it is to be hoped) lasting submission to the State without the shedding of any blood. After stopping at Beni for a few days, which were variously occupied with a fu...
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