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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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ittle stream ahead of the others, I cameupon a small group of warriors in full war paint; andone of them showing great curiosity, I offered to givehim a lift. As he needed to tie up his tassels andfinery, I held out my hand to take his spear and shieldmeanwhile, but at the offer he shrank away quitehorrified. Depositing them, however, on the groundat a distance, he was after a while safely mounted,though his long legs, which reached to the ground,showed a disinclination to trust the pedals ; the noveltyevidently amused him, but the grip of his hands overmine on the handles left me black and blue ; he alsosuffered, poor chap, from getting his foot in the chain,but took it in very good part. Cycling made travel-ling pleasant, and shortened the marches. One day,however, we were forced to dismount through a chill,drenching deluge, which converted the broad roadinto a lake with dotted islands, and gave us an experi-ence of a tropical downpour. Kisumu was reached early on Sunday morning, as
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Relics from Tribes met with on the Railway. Kikuyu spear, over 6 ft. long, of solid beaten iron, but forthe 6-in. handle of hard wood connecting together the massiveblade and the shoe. Small wooden shields obtained from Uganda. A Willss cigarette box found stuck through the lobe of aKikuyu mans ear as an ornament—a simple way of carrying acigarette case. 32 INTO THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT we had had to pull up a few miles short of it on theSaturday in our drenched condition. Tents werepitched amid a fine group of trees, and our wardrobeattended to. In the little service for Holy Communion in theafternoon one of the Government officers joined us ;he had been at Kisumu for ten months, but this washis first religious service. Surely our Church, in obey-ing the command to go to the heathen, needs to beever so much more devoted in caring also for thoseof its members whose duty calls them to posts ofisolation in the service of the Empire. The first stage of our journey was now over. Wewer

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