The Land Of Footprints By Stewart Edward White








 -  These rode their mothers' backs,
clinging desperately while they leaped along, for all the world
like the pathetic monkey jockeys - Page 14
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These Rode Their Mothers' Backs, Clinging Desperately While They Leaped Along, For All The World Like The Pathetic Monkey "Jockeys" One Sees Strapped To The Backs Of Big Dogs In Circuses.

When they had approached to within fifty yards, remarked "hullo!" to them.

Instantly they all stopped. Those in front stood up on their hind legs; those behind clambered to points of vantage on rocks and the tops of small bushes: They all took a good long look at me. Then they told me what they thought about me personally, the fact of my being there, and the rude way I had startled them. Their remarks were neither complimentary nor refined. The old men, in especial, got quite profane, and screamed excited billingsgate. Finally they all stopped at once, dropped on all fours, and loped away, their ridiculous long tails curved in a half arc. Then for the first time I noticed that, under cover of the insults, the women and children had silently retired. Once more I was left to the familiar gentle bird calls, and the vast silence of the wilderness beyond.

The second picture, also, was a view from a height, but of a totally different character. It was also, perhaps, more typical of a greater part of East Equatorial Africa. Four of us were hunting lions with natives-both wild and tame-and a scratch pack of dogs. More of that later. We had rummaged around all the morning without any results; and now at noon had climbed to the top of a butte to eat lunch and look abroad.

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