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Title: Round the black man's garden
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Colvile, Zélie Isabelle Richaud de Préville, lady
Subjects: Africa -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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ul owner, and acrowd of men and boys all equally anxious to securethe j)rize ; then at short intervals came another andanother, then half-a-dozen abreast, driving every-thing before them. Soon the square was full ofbeasts charging in all directions, foaming, roaring,and panting, amid shouts and showers of sticks andstones from men and boys, until some of the poorbeasts dropped down dead from sheer exhaustion.It was a cruel and disgusting sight, a sort of veryfeeble imitation of a Spanish bull-fight without anyof its pomp. Harry went down into the square and photo-graphed a bull just as it was charging at him:unfortunately this negative, together with nearlyall those we took in Madagascar, got ruined by thedamp. However, if he did not get his negative,he had a little excitement, which always does himgood ; while I only had a very unpleasant fiveminutes, expecting every moment to see him gored.As it happened, after he had jumped out of thebulls way, the beast rushed at a boy just behind
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< HZ< Pi THE BULLS LET LOOSE. 169 him, and sending his horn right into his eye,dragged it out. The boy, like a madman, got upand went straight at the next beast. Luckily hewas only knocked over, and was dragged from thescene by his friends. I soon got very tired of this feeble and disgust-ing sight; but as it was not thought safe to gothrough the town until all the animals had beendriven out of the place, I had to wait. One slightvariation to the scene w^as afforded during the after-noon. Suddenly the bulls were left to themselves,and the whole crowd rushed to one of the booths,from which a man was dragged by every limb insuch a way that I was expecting at any momentto see him torn in pieces : by the time he reachedthe middle of the square every stitch of clothinghad been torn off his back, and in this state he wasconducted to the Palace. It turned out that hehad stolen some goods from one of the booths, andwas being taken to the Palace for judgment. On our way home we were trea

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