Identifier: novelsofcaptain18marr (find matches)
Title: The novels of Captain Marryat
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 Johnson, R. Brimley (Reginald Brimley), 1867-1932
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Publisher: (London Dent)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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y Companions areransomed—Sad parting with Whyna—After an Encounter with a hostilePeople, we reach Senegal—Return to England. I HAD been about three months in captivity, when the oldking with his four wives and a large party of Negroes,left the town, and went into the woods to hunt. Mycompanions were left in the town, but I was ordered toattend my mistress, and I went with the hopes of beingable by some means to make my escape, for my fear ofthe old monarch was much greater than my regard for mymistress. As I had not become a proficient with thebow and arrows, or in hurling the javelin, I was equippedwith a strong spear. My mistress was skilful to admira-tion with the arrow and javelin; she never missed heraim that I knew, and she certainly never appeared to suchadvantage as she did at this hunting-party. Her activity,her symmetry of limb, and her courage, her skill withher weapons, all won the heart of the old king ; and Ibelieve that his strong attachment to her arose more from
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I The Private ersman 43 her possession of the above qualities than from any othercause. Certain it is, that the old savage doted on her—she was the only being who could bend his stubbornwill. As his age prevented him from joining in the chase,he always appeared to part with her with regret, and tocaution her not to run into useless danger; and when wereturned at night, the old mans eyes sparkled with therapture of dotage as he welcomed her return. The method of our chase was to beat the country, witha number of men, in a vast circle, until we had gatheredall the game into one thicket; then the strongest warriorswith their large spears went in and drove out the game,which was killed by the hunters who hovered aboutwithin the circle. The animals which we had to encounter were largefierce black pigs, leopards, jackals, tigers, mountain cats,and others which I have no name for—and in spite of theferocity of many of these animals when they bounded out,they were met with such a shower o

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