How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley







 -   Hastily
devouring a morsel of corn-bread with coffee, I hastened away,
with Bilali for a gunbearer, taking with me - Page 499
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Hastily Devouring A Morsel Of Corn-Bread With Coffee, I Hastened Away, With Bilali For A Gunbearer, Taking With Me The Famous Reilly Rifle Of The Doctor And A Supply Of Fraser's Shells.

After plunging through a deep stream, and getting wet again, and pushing my way through a dense brake, I

Arrived at a thin belt of forest, through which I was obliged to crawl, and, in half an hour, I had arrived within one hundred and forty yards of a group of zebras, which were playfully biting each other under the shade of a large tree. Suddenly rising up, I attracted their attention; but the true old rifle was at my shoulder, and "crack - crack" went both barrels, and two fine zebras, a male and female, fell dead under the tree where they had stood. In a few seconds their throats were cut, and after giving the signal of my success, I was soon surrounded by a dozen of my men, who gave utterance to their delight by fulsome compliments to the merits of the rifle, though very few to me. When I returned to camp with the meat I received the congratulations of the Doctor, which I valued far higher, as he knew from long experience what shooting was.

When the eatable portions of the two zebras were hung to the scale, we found, according to the Doctor's own figures, that we had 719 lbs. of good meat, which, divided among forty-four men, gave a little over 16 lbs.

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