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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As We Prepared To Select A
Camping-Place, The Doctor Silently Pointed Forward, And Suddenly
A Dead Silence Reigned Everywhere.
The quinine which I had taken
in the morning seemed to affect me in every crevice of my brain;
but a bitter evil remained, and, though I trembled under the heavy
weight of the Reilly rifle, I crept forward to where the Doctor
was pointing.
I found myself looking down a steep ravine, on the
other bank of which a fine buffalo cow was scrambling upward. She
had just reached the summit, and was turning round to survey her
enemy, when I succeeded in planting a shot just behind the shoulder
blade, and close to the spine, evoking from her a deep bellow of pain.
"She is shot! she is shot!" exclaimed the Doctor; "that is a sure sign
you have hit her." And the men even raised a shout at the prospect
of meat. A second, planted in her spine, brought her to her knees,
and a third ended her. We thus had another supply of provisions,
which, cut up and dried over a fire, as the Wangwana are accustomed
to do, would carry them far over the unpeopled wilderness before
us. For the Doctor and myself, we had the tongue, the hump, and
a few choice pieces salted down, and in a few days had prime
corned beef. It is not inapt to state that the rifle had more
commendations bestowed on it than the hunter by the Wangwana.
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