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Title: Explorations and adventures in the wilds of Africa;
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, James Russell
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Publisher: (Philadelphia?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ee boys are amusing little fellows, and have quite a talentx>r games. Of course they imitate the pursuits of their fathers, such asshooting with small bows and arrows, jumping over sticks at variousheights, pretending to shoot game, and other amusements. Some of theelder lads convert their play into reality, by making their bows andarrows large enough to kill the pigeons and other birds which fly aboutthem. They also make very creditable imitations of the white mansgun, tying two pieces of cane together for the barrels, modelling thestock, hammer, and trigger-guard out of clay, and imitating the smoke by WONDERFUL DISCOVERIES. 151 tufts of cotton wool. That they are kind-hearted boys is evident fromthe fact that they have tame birds in cages, and spend much time inteaching them to sing. The Wanyamuezi treat the Watusi with great respect. When twopeople of these tribes meet, the former presses his hands together, theWanisi uttering a few words in a low voice. If a Watusi man meets a
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YOUNG WEEZEE SHOOTING PIGEONS. woman of his own tribe, she lets her arms fall by her side, while he gentlyDresses them below the shoulders, looking affectionately in her face. The class of Arabs met with were a most degraded set: instead ofimproving the country, they brought ruin upon it by their imperiousnessand cruelty. All traded in slaves and generally treated them mostharshly. Several gangs were met with in chains. Each slave was dressed 152 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. in a single goats skin, and at night they kept themselves warm by lyingnear a fire. Never, by day or night, is the chain unfastened ; should oneof them require to move, the whole must accompany him. All atetogether boiled sweet potato, or the leaves of the pumpkin plant, andwere kept in poor condition to prevent their becoming troublesome. Any meat or bones left from the travellers dinners were thereforegiven them, and accepted thankfully. One gang was watched over by asmall lad, whose ears had been cut off, and who tr

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