A Walk Across Afric |
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Author:
| Grant, James Augustus |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-31388-9 |
Publication Date: | May 2012 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $30.02 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. JOURNEY TO KAZEH, 500 MILES IN THE INTERIOR?ESCORT AND CASUALTIES ON THE MARCH?CROSS THE EAST AFRICAN CHAIN INTO UGOGO?CLIMATE AND DISEASES OF KAZEH?AGRICULTURE AND PRODUCTS?WILD ANIMALS, BIRDS, AND FISH? FOUR NATIVE RACES, THE WAZARAMO, WASAGARA, WAGOGO, AND WANYAMUEZI. On the 2d of October...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. JOURNEY TO KAZEH, 500 MILES IN THE INTERIOR?ESCORT AND CASUALTIES ON THE MARCH?CROSS THE EAST AFRICAN CHAIN INTO UGOGO?CLIMATE AND DISEASES OF KAZEH?AGRICULTURE AND PRODUCTS?WILD ANIMALS, BIRDS, AND FISH? FOUR NATIVE RACES, THE WAZARAMO, WASAGARA, WAGOGO, AND WANYAMUEZI. On the 2d of October 1860, we started from Bago- moyo on the East African coast for Kazeh, 500 miles in the interior of Africa, latitude 5 south. The party consisted of the following: ? Captain Speke, commanding. Grant, second in command. Corporal, Cape Mounted Rifles, butcher. Private William, bugler and cook. Middleton, Speke's valet. April, Grant's valet, cook, andc. Lemon, useful generally. Reyters, fiddler. Peters. Arries. Jonsen. Jacob Adams. Said bin Salem, native commandant . Bombay, factotum, interpreter. Baraka, commanding Zanzibar men, interpreter. CASUALTIES OF THE EXPEDITION. 23 Rohan, interpreter, . -, -.. ' / I Pnvate servants and Fry, do., Uledi, valet, j Mabrook, valet, donkey-man. Three or four women. Sixty-four Seedee boys, ) Carrying our Mt and 115 porters of the interior, ) barter. Eleven mules carrying ammunition. Five donkeys to carry the sick. Twenty-five Belooch soldiers escorted us for the first thirteen stages, and we had the under-mentioned casualties during the journey: ? Private Peters dead; Five other privates sent back sick; About thirty Seedees deserted; One discharged; 113 porters deserted; Eleven mules and two donkeys dead; Fifteen out of twenty goats stolen; and Our native commandant, the Sheikh, hors de combat. The daily stages have been so well and so fully described by Captain Speke that I shall not dwell upon them, but merely mention a few incid...