Travels in the Interior of South Africa Volume 2; Comprising Fifteen Years' Hunting and Trading with Journeys Across the Continent from Natal to Walvis Bay, and Visits to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls
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. 1868 Excerpt: ...look at it, and I was obliged to pull off my boots, and drag it to the bank myself. This one was but eight feet long. I have often shot them eighteen feet long, and as bulky as a buffalo. The fig-treos here have four or five times the woody substance in their roots that they have in the trunks. You see them traversing ...
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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. 1868 Excerpt: ...look at it, and I was obliged to pull off my boots, and drag it to the bank myself. This one was but eight feet long. I have often shot them eighteen feet long, and as bulky as a buffalo. The fig-treos here have four or five times the woody substance in their roots that they have in the trunks. You see them traversing the bare walls of basaltic rock for a hundred feet or more, with several thick roots, each as thick as the trunk. The tree seems to imbibe nourishment from the air. 13th December.--April returned from Chuma-Chukeroo, whither I had sent him to engage porters: he brought two miserable wretches, mere skeletons, with the promise of a further supply of this questionable article on the morrow. Next day, conceiving it a duty incumbent on him to feed the poor hungry fellows, April went out, of his own accord, to hunt. At night, after I had retired to bed, one of our people arrived in great distress, having been sent by April to ask assistance. His gun had burst, and injured his hand, and the poor fellow was so weak from loss of blood that, being unable to walk any farther, he had lain down under a tree about 10 miles off. I called up all the men to go to his assistance, taking with them food and water. I feared lest the lions and wolves, which are very abundant, and even now roaring about us in great numbers, should devour him; but Shapatani insisted that he should not be able to find the place again in the dark. It was indeed pitch-dark, cloudy, and drizzling. I tried hard, however, to get them to go off at once, as April had no fire, and it would be a miracle if the lions were to miss a wounded and bleeding man: but all to no purpose. 15th December.--In the evening April was brought back on a stretcher, carried by three men. The rest of them did not...
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