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Title: From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Grogan, Ewart Scott, 1874- Sharp, Arthur H. (Arthur Henry)
Subjects: Africa -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ntless troops of monkeys that are for ever coughing and dancingamongst the rocks and trees, I saw a small family of very beautiful littlefellows witJi bright fox-red fringes down their sides, but I could not bringmyself to shoot at them after seeing that unfortunate baboon, although Ihave never seen them described, or elsewhere in Africa. At Viboko I Avas compelled to wait, the shore in front being impracti-cable and the heights behind unscaleable, till Mswa sent down the canoes,which I had requested by numerous envoys. My boys were badly in needof a rest, the work having been very trying since Kahanamas, and thefever from which I was suffering made it equally acceptable to me. Inthe afternoon two natives an-ived, saying that a muzungu ^ was comingdown to meet me with ten canoes. After inquiries as to what kind ofAskaris he had, etc., etc., I gathered that it must be a Belgian official, sokilled the fatted calf in the guise of a skinny sheep and sundry osseous ^ Muzungn: •white man.
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ALBERT LAKE AND UPPER NILE 237 frames masquerading as dorkings, and then plunged for the second timeinto the turgid flow of Zolas Borne, to cleanse my French of probableSwahili trespassers. I even exhumed a tie, and having produced a menuthat exhausted all the possible combinations and permutations of anAfrican larder, awaited anxiously his arrival, picturing to myself the joysof a little talkee-talkee once more. A stiff southerly breeze evidently wasdelaying them, and it was not till after dark that we heard the-wild canoe-song of the flotilla, which had rounded the point, and caught sight of ourcamp-fires. Giving a last twirl to my heavy cavalry moustache and anautical hitch to the Poolesque garment aforesaid, and composing myfeatures to the ironclad smirk indispensable to such occasions, I advancedto do the honours, and grasped the hand of a dirty, greasy, little buck niggerclad in, or rather smeared over Avith, a prehistoric piece of cloth ! Here wasmy muzungu! here my gallant Bel

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