From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north (1902) (14578827347)

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Title: From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Ewart Scott Grogan
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Publisher: Hurst and Blackett, limited
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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nding crops, and presently two stood outagainst the sky and waved their shields in defiance, thinking,poor devils, that they were well out of range. By great goodluck I judged the distance correctly and laid them out, tothe huge delight of my people and the corresponding con-sternation of the blacks. We then hurried on to the huts from which we had seenthese people come, but they were too quick for us, and fled.A cloud of vultures hovering over the spot gave me an inklingof what I was about to see, but the realization defies descrip-tion ; it haunts me in my dreams, at dinner it sits on my leg-of-mutton, it bubbles in my soup, in fine, Watonga would noteat the potatoes that grew in the same country and wentwithout food for forty-eight hours rather than do so ; askyour African friends what that means; negroes have notdelicate stomachs. Loathsome, revolting, a hideous night-mare of horrors; and yet I must tell briefly what I sawfor the edification of any disciple of the poor-dear-black-
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MUSHARI AND ITS CANNIBALS. 169 man, - down - with - the - Maxim, - Africa - for - the - AfricanCreed, who may chance to peruse these pages. Item.—A bunch of human entrails drying on a stick. Item.—A howling baby. Item.—A pot of soup with bright yellow fat. Item.—A skeleton with the skin on lying in the middle ofthe huts; apparently been dead about three months. Item.—A gnawed thigh-bone with shreds of half-cookedmeat attached. Item.—A gnawed fore-arm, raw. Item.—Three packets of small joints, evidently prepared forflight, but forgotten at the last moment. Item.—A head with a spoon left sticking in the brains. Item.—A head, one cheek eaten, the other charred; hairburnt, and scalp cut off at top of forehead like the peel of anorange ; one eye removed, presumably eaten, the other glaringat you. Item.—Offal, sewage. Item.—A stench that passeth all understanding, and, asa fitting accompaniment, a hovering cloud of crows andloathly, scraggy-necked vultures. Every villa