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Title: Old Ironsides, the hero of Tripoli and 1812, and other tales and adventures on sea and land
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916
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Publisher: New York, Hurst and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t the best of care should be taken ofhim. It was this promise which led me to hesitateso long about taking him away from camp, wherehe always had the companionship of several of themost trusty natives. But the time came at last */ when the coveted permission was given, on my re-turn one afternoon from an almost endless seriesof unsuccessful hunts. Dick was delighted, as may well be supposed,and started off the next morning in high hopes.We were accompanied by three natives, the most-tried and trusty of our acquaintances. Dick andI each carried a fine repeating Winchester, but tlioAfricans, who were nearly naked except a breech-clout, had only a long spear apiece. It was the same old monotonous story until themiddle of the afternoon. We saw signs, severaltimes, and I am confident were quite near soin;of them more than once. l\\ fact, Loin is,the principal native, caught a passing glimpse ofa gigantic male, which he might have shot had hepossessed a weapon, but no such luck attended me.
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DICKS ADVENTURE WITH THE GORILLA, 149 aa 150 OLD IRONSIDES. Uncle Duke/ said my nephew, * Supposeyou and the rest wait here while Lohm and Itake a look among those matted vines over yon-der. All right/ I replied, go ahead.I think Dick began to suspect I was the Jonahof the party, for I had expressed the same opinionmany times in his presence. He and the nativewere oft before I could recall my permission, andthree minutes later vanished from sight in thedense jungle. And within ten minutes I was startled by awild cry and the report of Dicks rifle. The othernatives and mvself dashed through the wood at v the highest bent of our speed and speedily cameupon a startling sight. The native, Lohm, was leading the way, withthe boy only a few paces behind him, when, with-out the slightest warning, an immense male gorilla O O/ o bounded lightly from behind the trunk of a tree,and delivered one terrific stroke with his paw,which crushed the skull of the poor fellow asthough it were an egg-shell,

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