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Title: Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M. Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc. ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. Chicago, Ill. (etc.) National Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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rfellow the last fearful crush; and in the future we must not go withoutone or two of our fowling-pieces loaded with ball, obsei^ved Wilson ram-ming down a bullet into his rifle. Chickango and I did the same. We then constructed a rough litter^on which we placed the injured negro. We bore him along, a porter andChickango carrying the head and I the feet part of the litter. We foundthe weight considerable, especially over the rough ground we had totraverse, but the life of a fellow-creature depended upon our perseverance. TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS AND NARROW ESCAPES. 259 Chickango carefully noted the spot where the elephant lay, that we mightreturn as soon as possible for some of the meat and the tusks, which werevery large. We reached the spot where our friends were cutting out thecanoe just as they were about to leave it, and we were thankful to havetheir assistance in carrying the stranger. The doctor instantly appliedhimself to examining the hurts of the negro. He found that his left arm
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A FAMILY OF LION MONKEYS. had been broken, and the ribs on the same side severely crushed. Theinjuries might be serious for a white man, he observed; but the bloodof an African, unheated by the climate, escapes inflammation, and I havehopes that he may recover. Chickango was very eager to set out im-mediately, in order to bring in the eleahants tusks and some meat, butWilson considered that it was too late in the day, and put off the expedi-tion till the following morning. 260 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. We were somewhat later in starting than we intended. We carriedbaskets and ropes, to bring with us the ivory and a supply of meat. Onreaching the spot, however, where the huge monster lay, we found thatothers had been before us. The tusks were gone, and a portion of theflesh. Innumerable birds of prey, also, were tearing away at it, or seatedon the surrounding trees devouring the pieces they had carried off, whilehyenas, already gorged, crept sulkily away, doubting whether they shouldatta

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