How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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"Oh," Said The Sultan At Parting,
"These White Men Know Everything, The Arabs Are Dirt Compared To Them!"
That night Hamdallah, one of the guides, deserted, carrying with
him his hire (27 doti), and a gun.
It was useless to follow him
in the morning, as it would have detained me many more days than
I could afford; but I mentally vowed that Mr. Hamdallah should
work out those 27 doti of cloths before I reached the coast.
Wednesday, October 4th, saw us travelling to the Gombe River,
which is 4 h. 15 m. march from Manyara.
We had barely left the waving cornfields of my friend Ma-manyara
before we came in sight of a herd of noble zebra; two hours
afterwards we had entered a grand and noble expanse of park
land, whose glorious magnificence and vastness of prospect,
with a far-stretching carpet of verdure darkly flecked here
and there by miniature clumps of jungle, with spreading trees
growing here and there, was certainly one of the finest scenes
to be seen in Africa. Added to which, as I surmounted one of
the numerous small knolls, I saw herds after herds of buffalo
and zebra, giraffe and antelope, which sent the blood coursing
through my veins in the excitement of the moment, as when I first
landed on African soil. We crept along the plain noiselessly to
our camp on the banks of the sluggish waters of the Gombe. '
Here at last was the hunter's Paradise!
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