Fichier:In wildest Africa - the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of (14596337728).jpg
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Text Appearing Before Image: to rains and theright time to cultivate the fields. Shot another big water buck. He jumped outof a swamp. I sent a bullet after him. He fled andI pursued him and found him under a big acaciatree. Another bullet ended his pain. He was asbig as an elk. A fine feast for the boys! They willeat it down to the marrow of the bones. Plenty offood and sleep, and a big camp fire — thats whatpleases them the most. When it comes to lion-shooting they all prefer to stay in the camp. Shimba (the lion) drives the fear of death intotheir humble souls, especially when the said lionhappens to break the stillness of the Equatorialnight by his dreadful roaring. Feed these big boys well on meat and grain andthey will follow you, Mr. Hunter, to the very HellsGate, but whatever you do — dont talk shimbato them! Kavirondo women pull in the fishing nets madeentirely of papyrus stalks, and the men on rafts outon the lake watch to protect them from the hippo-potami. The top knots of the papyrus stalks make Text Appearing After Image: rn.UruoM.l .V 1 \. Y. Photoj,raph by Pt-ttr DutM;wH-li, O.pyri.lit. 1 KAVIRONDO WOMEN DRAGGING A FISH-NET. The Kavirondo People 285 a compact net, through which fish cannot escape.They eat all and everything they catch. If the fishis only half an inch long, they eat it. The womenpulling the net are as innocent of clothing as angelsin Heaven, and as modest and moral as any oftheir sisters in the civilized world. They told meit is the men who will not allow them to use anyclothes, except a small screen. The spirited Kavirondo belles draw water inbaskets for drinking purposes from Victoria Ny-anza. A week ago a crocodile at this very spotgrabbed a boy of seventeen by the leg and bit itclean off; yet these plucky girls go into the wateras carelessly as if nothing had happened. To reachan open place they must go about two hundredyards in the papyrus swamps, which make a kindof barrier between the open lake and the solid shore.The swamp harbours the dreadful crocodile, thehuge hippopotami,
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