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Title: Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ..
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Kelsey, D. M., (from old catalog) comp
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Publisher: St. Louis and Philadelphia, Scammel & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s, and as they traveled, the sports-man had several times shot fine animals, that they came totheir old quarters on the Gombe, a district which Stanley hadalready described as the hunters paradise. The rain hadscattered the greater number of the herds, but there wasplenty of game in the vicinity. Soon after breakfast he tookKhamisi and Kalulu with him for a hunt. After a long walkthey arrived near a thin jungle, where he discovered the tracksof several animals—boar, antelope, elephant, rhinoceros, hip-popotamus, and an unusual number of imprints of the lionspaw. Suddenly he heard Khamisi say: Master! Master! Here is a simha (lion) ! He came up to his master trembling with excitement andfear—for the young fellow was an arrant coward—to point outthe head of a beast, which could just be seen across the tallgrass, looking steadily at them. It immediately afterwardbounded from side to side, but the grass was so high that itwas impossible to tell exactly where it was. Taking advantage
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HOW STANLEY FOUND LlVlNOSTONE. ill of a tree in front, Stanley crept quietly onward, intending torest the heavy rifle against it, as he was so weak from the ef-fects of several fevers that he felt himself utterly incapable ofsupporting the piece for a steady aim. But his surprise wasgreat when he cautiously laid it against the tree, and then di-rected its muzzle to the spot where he had seen the lion stand.Looking further away, to where the grass was thin and scant,he saw the animal bound away at a great rate, and it was alion; the noble monarch of the forest was in full flight! Fromthat moment the hunter ceased to regard him as the might-iest among the brutes, or his roar as anything more fearful inbroad daylight than a sucking doves. February 14, they arrived at Uganda, where they found noless than seven packets of letters and newspapers for Stanley,one containing some letters for Livingstone. The letters wereof course read with much interest, but the papers were skim-med over, and

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