This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...I saw several point their long guns at me; one kneeled to do so, yet none of them at first seemed really in earnest to shoot, for they did not chip their flints. But soon on a little point in front I noticed a man posted methodically for a purpose. He trimmed his priming, he cocked his hammer, and, as I came straight ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...I saw several point their long guns at me; one kneeled to do so, yet none of them at first seemed really in earnest to shoot, for they did not chip their flints. But soon on a little point in front I noticed a man posted methodically for a purpose. He trimmed his priming, he cocked his hammer, and, as I came straight up to him, every other person stopped to look, and not a voice was heard. I could not escape this man, and he knew that well. Up went his gun to his shoulder: he was cool, and so was I. The muzzle was not twenty feet from my face. Three thoughts coursed through my brain: (1) "Will hit me in the mouth; bad to lie wounded here." (2) "Aimed from his left shoulder; how convenient to shoot on both sides!" (3) "No use 'bobbing' here--first time under fire--Arabs respect courage." The clear round black of the muzzle end followed me covering as I passed. I stared right at the man's eyes, and, as his hand tugged at the stiff trigger, I gave one powerful stroke; at the same moment he fired--fiz, bang! and a splash of the bullet in the water behind me. Loud shouts came out of the smoke. I stopped, brandished my paddle, and shouted, "Not fair to use a gun!" In an instant the water was full of naked swimmers straining towards me. In vain I tried hard to avoid them. Suddenly my canoe was wrenched down. It was by the same black giant I had elbowed off before; but now he came furiously, brandishing the white shank-bone of a buffalo. I warded off that with my paddle, but another also had got hold of the boat. I was captured now, and must resort to tactics. The crowd yelled louder iu triumph, but I motioned my captors to take the boat to the opposite shore. The man cried "Bakshish! "--a word I had somehow heard b...
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Good Plus. 8vo. xiv, 474pp, coloured frontis and three coloured plates with tissue-guards, with 8 maps (one folding) and woodcuts, appendix. Prelims, endpages and page edges lightly foxed with scattered light foxing throughout. Hinges cracked. Or dec red cl boards with wear at the spine head and foot. A cruise on ancient rivers, lakes and seas, in Bible lands.
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