Identifier: explorationofnil01bake (find matches)
Title: Exploration of the Nile tributaries of Abyssinia : the sources, supply, and overflow of the Nile; the country, people, customs, etc. Interspersed with highly exciting adventures of the author among elephants, lions, buffaloes, hippopotami, rhinoceros, etc., accompanied by expert native sword hunters
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893 Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889
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Publisher: Hartford : O. D. Case & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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in. their knowledge ofthe country, I followed • their directions, and weshortly recrossed the ford, and arrived upon a dryportion of the rivers bed, banked by. a dense thicketof nabbuk. > ; ; Jali now took the management of affairs. Weall dismounted, and sent the horses to a considerabledistance lest they should by some noise disturb theelephants. We shortly heard a cracking in the jungleon our right, and Jali assured us that as he hadexpected, the elephants were slowly advancing alongthe jungle on the bank of the river, and they wouldpass exactly before us. We waited patiently in thebend of the river, and the cracking in the junglesounded closer as the herd evidently approached.The strip of thick, thorny covert that fringed themargin was in no place wider than half a mile^beyond that the country was open and park-like, butat this season it was covered with parched grassfrom eight to ten feet high; the elephants would,therefore, most probably remain in the jungle untildriven out.
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