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Title: Explorations and adventures in the wilds of Africa;
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, James Russell
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Publisher: (Philadelphia?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ere I lay in wait, that if theanimal took alarm at him it might fly toward me; and then began tocrawl, in the hunter fashion, through the grass toward his prey. Allwent well till he came near enough for a shot. Just then, unluckily, thebull saw him. Ifouta immediately fired. The gun made a long fire, andhe only wounded the beast, which, quite infuriated, as it often is at theattack of hunters, immediately rushed upon him. It was now that poor Ifouta lost his presence of mind. In such cases,which are continually happening to those who hunt, the cue of the hun«ter is to remain perfectly quiet till the beast is within a jump of him, theisto step nimbly to one side and let it rush past. But Ifouta got up/and ran, Of course, in a moment the bull had him on his horns. It tossedhim high into the air once, twice, thrice, ere I could run up, and,by my shouts, draw its fury to myself. Then it came rushing at me.But my guns do not hesitate^ and, as I had a fair shot, I killed itwithout trouble.
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ba n H B* ai—i HB a zo < BW H OH i—i w p B en CO OH 251 252 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. Ifouta proved to be consiaerably bruised, but, on the whole, morescared than hurt; and when I had washed him off in a creek near by, hewas able to walk home. When Du Chaillu was among the tribe called Camma, he had a curi-ous experience with a doctor who was celebrated for detecting evil spir-its and healing the sick. He says : Ishungui, the man who had faithfully taken care of my house, lay at*deaths door. He had gone out on a fishing excursion, caught cold, and ihad now a lung fever. I knew when I saw him that he must die, andtried to prepare his mind for the change. But his friends by no meansgave him up. They sent for a distinguished doctor, and under his aus-pices began the infernal din with which they seek to cure a dyingraian. Infernal Looking- Doctor. The Camma theory of disease is that Okamboo (the devil) has gotinto the sick man. Now this devil is only to be driven out with noise,and a

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