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Title: Tramps round the Mountains of the Moon and through the back gate of the Congo State by T. Broadwood Johnson. With an introd. by T.F. Victor Buxton
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, T. Broadwood
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Publisher: London T.F. Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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a miracle,in a seemingly very unstable position, and is proddingaway with that stick again. Now he is up to hiswaist; but the worst is over, and step by step heemerges on the other side with the box still m situ;your anxiety is relieved, and if the stream didnt makesuch a clatter you would shout across to him a hearty webale. Those of the caravan familiar with the artof stream-crossing passed over first with their loadsand then came back to assist the more awkward ortimid by holding their hands or carrying their loads.For a European to wade through up to his waist in theicy water of the glacier stream, with a blazing sun over-head, would almost certainly lead to a dose of fever,and your porters prefer to save you the risk by givingyou a lift on their shoulders. In this way I have beentransported scores of times across rivers and swamps,sometimes as much as two or three hundred yardsbroad, and at times in the pitch dark night whendelayed in arriving at camp, but such is their skill in
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