Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M. Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., (14760794056)

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Title: Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M. Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc. ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. Chicago, Ill. (etc.) National Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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formed a natural lawn. Here huts were built and someweeks were pleasantly spent. Mr. Baker found an abundance of sport,sometimes catching enormous fish, at others shooting birds to supply hislarder, but more frequently hunting elephants, rhinoceros, giraffes, andother large game. He here found a German named Florian, a stone-mason by trade, whohad come out attached to the Austrian mission at Khartoum, but prefer-ring a freer life than that city afforded, had become a great hunter. Mr.Baker, thinking that he would prove useful, engaged him as a hunter,and he afterwards took into his service Florians black servant Richarn,who became his faithful attendant. A former companion of Florians,Johann Schmidt, soon afterwards arrived, and was also engaged by Mr.Baker to act as his lieutenant in his proposed White Nile expedition.Poor Florian, however, was killed by a lion, and Schmidt and Richarnalone accompanied him. Mr. Bakers skill as a sportsman was frequently called into play by the > .
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(431) 432 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. natives, to drive off the elephants and hippopotami which infested theirplantations. One afternoon he was requested to shoot a savage old bullhippopotamus which had given chase to several people. He rode tothe spot, about two miles off, where the hippopotamus lived in adeep and broad portion of the river. The old hippopotamus was athome. The river, about two hundred and fifty yards wide, had formed by anacute bend a deep hole. In the centre of this was a sandbank just belowthe surface. Upon this shallow bed the hippotamus was reposing. Onperceiving the party he began to snort and behave himself in a mostabsurd manner, by shaking his head and leaping half way out of thewater. Mr. Baker had given Bacheet and other attendants rifles, and hadordered them to follow on the bank. He now directed one to fire severalshots at the hippopotamus, in order if possible, to drive the animaltowards him. The hippo, a wicked, solitary, old bull, returned the insultby ch