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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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e. At last a wild shout ran along the line.The fence came in sight, and what a sight it was! Wildbeasts of all kinds were rimning to and fro, mad with ter-ror. Hyenas, porcupines, black wild boars, gazelles, ante-lopes, wild cats, and even snakes were driven helter-skel-ter within the inclosure. They would run along thefence till they came to the long jpouches, or cul de sac,and, thinking these were ways of escape, into them theywould go, and find they were snared. The spears of the Apingi went through the animalsalong the whole line. The slaughter was terrific. My firstshot was for a very large snake, some nineteen feet long,a python, which, seeing that he could not get throughthe fence, made in my direction, and was spreading ter-ror and dismay among the Apingi, for it had its mouthwide open, its sharp-pointed tongue was thrust a longwaj^ out, and its hissing could even be heard in the midstof the uproar that raged around us. I was glad that we had not been troubled by ele-phants.
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GREAT SLAUGHTER OF BEASTS. ^^ I immediately advanced, after reloading the barrel Ihad fired. There was a savage black boar, whose sharpmuzzle had been thrust between the sticks of the fence,so that he was in a fair way to get through, but a shotof mine put an end to its life. A fine fat creature itwas. I suddenly saw an ugly big wild cat, at which anApingi had hurled a spear, but had missed him. Thecreature, being brought to bay, was about to spring uponliis .assailant, when, in a jiffy, I brought him down, in themidst of the great cheers of those around us. The cul de sac, which, according to the hunting laws,belonged to me, was filled with gazelles, which were im-mediately speared by the Apingi. There was a porcu-pine among them, which could not have been at all apleasant companion to the gazelles. It would be hard tosay which of the creatures was the most frightened. The excitement all along the line was intense, and thelord shouts of the Apingi sounded strangely in the woods.But a

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