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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Frequently, If Not Disturbed By The
Startling Human Voice, They Make A Raid On The Rich Corn-Stalks Of
The
Native cultivators, and a dozen of them will in a few minutes
make a frightful havoc in a large field
Of this plant.
Consequently, we were not surprised, while delayed at the ferry,
to hear the owners of the corn venting loud halloos, like the
rosy-cheeked farmer boys in England when scaring the crows away
from the young wheat.
The caravan in the meanwhile had crossed safely - bales, baggage,
donkeys, and men. I had thought to have camped on the bank, so as
to amuse myself with shooting antelope, and also for the sake of
procuring their meat, in order to save my goats, of which I had a
number constituting my live stock of provisions; but, thanks to
the awe and dread which my men entertained of the hippopotami, I
was hurried on to the outpost of the Baluch garrison at Bagamoyo,
a small village called Kikoka, distant four miles from the river.
The western side of the river was a considerable improvement upon
the eastern. The plain, slowly heaving upwards, as smoothly as
the beach of a watering-place, for the distance of a mile, until it
culminated in a gentle and rounded ridge, presented none of those
difficulties which troubled us on the other side. There were none
of those cataclysms of mire and sloughs of black mud and over-tall
grasses, none of that miasmatic jungle with its noxious emissions;
it was just such a scene as one may find before an English
mansion - a noble expanse of lawn and sward, with boscage sufficient
to agreeably diversify it.
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