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Identifier: explorationsadve00wils (find matches)
Title: Explorations and adventures in the wilds of Africa;
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, James Russell
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Publisher: (Philadelphia?)
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urney, withoutwater so far, and I shall be obliged to wait for rain before I can get out,besides which the ravines are now full of a poisonous herb, which is cer-tain death in a few hours to oxen, so that we are obliged to be mostcautious. Painter, one of my horses, was left behind yesterday for dead;thirst and the intense heat of the sun had, to all appearance, finishedhim; but, to my amazement, he turned up again this morning, havingfound his way in the night to our old place. Chased l>y an Infuriated Buffalo. The best 01 my stud, Ferus, yesterday got desparately staked in the.breast. A wounded buffalo, which I was trying to drive, charged memost savagely, and none other but Ferus could have brought me safelyout. It was a near thing for about one hundred yards, and when shewas not two yards from my horses tail, taking advantage of an openingin the bush, I wheeled half round in the saddle, and gave her a bulletthrough her right ear and grazed the top of her back, without, however,
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232 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. doing her any harm; but she shortly gave up the chase, when 1reloaded, dismounted, and brought her down. It was among hack=thorns, and my clothes were completely torn off my body. We had nota bite of anything at all at the wagon, and no near probability of gettinganything, therefore I was rash, as a buffalo is a beast you cannot drive The nipple of my gun broke short off in the worm the other day, ancI tried every means to get it out for some time without effect, only mak«ing matters worse by breaking a plug short off that I had been harden-ing and shaping to fit all day. At last I made a drill bore, and suc-ceeded beyond my most sanguine expectations, and she is now none theworse. We are obliged to load heavily for South African game; sixdrachms are my smallest dose, and my powder this year is excellent. I think it hardly possible for the country to be or look worse thannow, and my poor oxen and horses have fallen off fearfully. All thewater-courses are d

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