Identifier: myapingikingdo00duch (find matches)
Title: My Apingi kingdom : with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c.
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni, 1831-1903 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Explorers Kings and rulers Animals Shipwrecks Slavery Tsogo (African people) Gabon -- Description and travel Juvenile fiction Africa, West -- Description and travel Juvenile fiction
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nd of fishing-smack,which the governor of the island wished to sell. Thisboat was about ten tons burden. My great objection toit was that it had no deck; but, as there was no choice, Ihad to take it. After buying the boat, the next thing was to get acrew. I went to friend Fasiko, and asked him to engageme a crew of four men, and sail down the coast with me.I immediately gave the name of Gull to our craft.The next morning Fasiko came with four strong, strap-ping fellows, all runaway slaves from the island of St.Thomas. They had before gone as sailors on board ofvessels whose crews had been disabled by sickness. Theysaid they were thoroughly good seamen—could splice arope, go up the mast, kifew how to cast an anchor, andsteer a ship. They had kept their Portuguese names—Pedro, Antonio, Francisco, and Joannes. I named Fasikocaptain, Pedro mate, Antonio and Joannes sailors, andFrancisco cook, steward, and sailor into the bargain, if itbecame necessary. The boat was to be theirs when I
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OUTFIT OF THE GULL. 247 had done with it, and thej would return to Fernando Poin it. I engaged them at the rate of ten dollars a month,with the promise of extra pay if they worked well. Dis-cipline must be observed, and the night watches must bestrictly kept. I was afraid that the sailing qualities of the Gull werenot very good, for her bow was not sharp, and she wastoo broad and too short. The first thing to be done wasto put her in thorough trim for her voyage, and get pro-visions on board. So I bought from tlie natives sweetpotatoes, yams, and a dozen fowls. I tried to get somesea-bread, but none could be obtained; but the good gov-ernor promised me some loaves of bread. I bought abrass kettle, an iron pot, some butter, two big pieces ofsalt pork, and two pieces of salt beef for my men, and adozen boxes of sardines for myself. We also put onboard a large quantity of fire-wood. Then I managed toget an old cask, which I sawed in two, and filled one halfwith sand. This one was to be o

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