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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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arranged with which I was to go, which would at leasttake me to the borders of the Sahara. While waitingfor my companions to get ready, I usually employed myafternoons in walking along the shore till I came to aspot where nothing was before me but the ocean spark-ling in the sunlight. Not a soul was ever within sight.Behind me lay an ocean of barren sand, so loose that itwas most difficult and fatiguing to walk through it.How strangely the wind whispered as it blew from thatimmense extent of scorching desert! The landscape wasgloomy and forlorn, and had a most depressing influenceover me. Between the sad murmurs of the wind, andthe solemn and monotonous noise of the waves as theybroke on the shore, I could not tell which was the mostmelancholy sound to hear. But still I loved to seat my-self on the edge, if I may so term it, of the Great Des-ert, and have before me the wide Atlantic; for thenthoughts of home would come over me, and many mem-ories of the dear friends I had left behind.
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WHY CAMELS VAN STAND THIRST. 207 At last, when ray patience was almost exhausted, thepreparations for our trip were finished, and the day ofdeparture came. The caravan was going somewhere farto the north, and was to follow the line of the sea-shore;and it was arranged that a certain number of men wereto remain with me whenever I chose to stay behind forthe purpose of hunting, for I did not intend to go withthem to the end of their journey. I only wanted to en-joy the novelty of real desert life for a little while. The men were mounted on a great variety of animals,camels, horses, and donkeys; and when offered my choice,I selected a camel, having never ridden one in my life.Every man was armed with a double-barreled flint-lockgun, and some had pistols and swords. The party wasaccompanied by a marabout (Mohammedan priest); hewas a strange-looking old man, with a white beard, andseemed to be very much venerated by the people. We had with us all that was necessary for a camp.Our tents wer

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