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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Another Had Shot A
Buffalo-Calf, And Another Had Bagged A Hartebeest; The Wakonongo
Related Their Laughable Rencontre With Me
In the woods, and were
lavish in their description of the stores of honey to be found
in the woods;
And all this time Selim and his youthful subs were
trying their sharp teeth on the meat of a young pig which one
of the hunters had shot, but which nobody else would eat, because
of the Mohammedan aversion to pig, which they had acquired during
their transformation from negro savagery to the useful docility
of the Zanzibar freed-man.
We halted the two following days, and made frequent raids on the
herds of this fine country. The first day I was fairly successful
again in the sport. I bagged a couple of antelopes, a kudu
(A. strepsiceros) with fine twisting horns, and a pallah-buck
(A. melampus), a reddish-brown animal, standing about three and
a half feet, with broad posteriors. I might have succeeded in
getting dozens of animals had I any of those accurate, heavy
rifles manufactured by Lancaster, Reilly, or Blissett, whose every
shot tells. But my weapons, save my light smoothbore, were unfit
for African game. My weapons were more for men. With the Winchester
rifle, and the Starr's carbine, I was able to hit anything within
two hundred yards, but the animals, though wounded, invariably
managed to escape the knife, until I was disgusted with the pea-
bullets. What is wanted for this country is a heavy bore - No.
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