My Companion Unfortunately Got Fever Here, And Was Prevented From
Going Out, And I Did Little Better; For Although I
Waded up to my
middle every day, and wounded several blanc boc, I only bagged
one, and should not have
Got even him, had it not happened that
some lions in the night pulled him down close to our camp, and
roared so violently that they told us the story. The first thing
in the morning I wished to have at them; but they took the hint
of daybreak to make off, and left me only the half of the animal.
I saw only one sable antelope. We all went back to Kaze,
arriving there on the 24th.
25th to 13th. - Days rolled on, and nothing was done in
particular - beyond increasing my stock of knowledge of distant
places and people, enlarging my zoological collection, and taking
long series of astronomical observations - until the 13th, when
the whole of Kaze was depressed by a sad scene of mourning and
tears. Some slaves came in that night - having made their way
through the woods from Ugogo, avoiding the track to save
themselves from detection - and gave information that Snay, Jafu,
and five other Arabs, had been killed, as well as a great number
of slaves. The expedition, they said, had been defeated, and the
positions were so complicated nobody knew what to do. At first
the Arabs achieved two brilliant successes, having succeeded in
killing Hori Hori of Khoko, when they recovered their ivory, made
slaves of all they could find, and took a vast number of cattle;
then attacking Usekhe they reduced that place to submission by
forcing a ransom out of its people.
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