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Title: Tramps round the Mountains of the Moon and through the back gate of the Congo State by T. Broadwood Johnson. With an introd. by T.F. Victor Buxton
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, T. Broadwood
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Publisher: London T.F. Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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o pass us out ofquarantine, and we went below for our partingmeal. Meanwhile, our luggage was being deposited in alumbering old lighter pitching about alongside, andafter dinner we men managed to scramble in safely ontop, thanks to the hauling and steadying of the blackcrew, the ladies having places provided for them in theships little pinnace under the charge of the doctor. Mr. Burt, of the Mission, kindly met us, and, afterour luggage had been deposited in the Custom House,took five of us off to his house, the rest being draftedoff to other hosts. That night we slept with unmistakable soundnesstill aroused about six oclock by a Soudanese messengerwith a merry, smiling face. By seven oclock we weretogether for breakfast, and one could appreciate thewisdom of the early start when, an hour later, we foundourselves gradually melting away. Our first task was to go down to get our baggagecleared from the Custom House, declaring anythingdutiable, such as field-glasses, bike, and harmonium,
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A BIT OF NATIVE MOMBASA—MOHAMMEDAN MOSQUE ANDSACRED WELL. (To face f. 15. THE VOYAGE OUT TO MOMBASA 15 and then, learning that the EngHsh mail went out attwo in the afternoon, there was a rush for pen and inkfor our first letters from African soil. Mombasa is an interesting old place with a historyattaching to its massive, forbidding-looking white stonefortress. When Xerxes sent off his mariners downthe Red Sea with instructions to go straight on, itmust have been an arduous task for them, and a veryplucky achievement in their miniature craft, to makethat terrible journey right down the east coast roundThe Cape and up the west coast and through theStraits of Gibraltar, thus voyaging round the wholecontinent back to Egypt; and amongst the harboursthey would need to put in at for fresh supplies of foodand water must almost certainly have been Mombasawith its sheltered anchorage. But they left no trace of their visit to prove it, orhistorical note of their dealings, commercial or other

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