The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-02-03

heart. Well do / remember how thou
dtdst rescue me when those dogs stood by
~ Pee mu drown. Measure for measure
NIL I give thee, and Il thqu canst be saved
surely I viii! safe thee. lasten.> by dawn
{o-mCrrow bc pteI,ared, for liitters shall. be
mere 70 bear ye away acr0ssthe mountains,
and through the marshes beyond This
will (! do, spying that 1t u tho word Of SIC
that 1t he DONE drid he who obeycth not
the word Of Stg food ID he for the hyenus.
Thcn when yc have crossed the marshes,
perchnnce, Il good fortune 60 with yc, We
may live to come to that black water
whereof ye told me. And now, see, the
Lion wakes, and ye must eat the food !
have made ready Tor ye."
Leo's. condition when once. he Was fairly
aroused proved not to he 30 bad rs might
have been expected from his appearance,
and we both ct us managed to cat a hearty
meal, which indeed we needed bad cnouyh.
After this we limpsd down to the spring
and bathed, and then came back and slept
again till evening. when we once more ute
enough for five. BtIlali WAS away all TINT
day, no doubt making arrangements about
ntterS ai1t bearers, for we were awakened
In the middle Of the night by the arrival
II q considerable number of men in the
little camp.
At dawn tho old man himself appeared.
aud told US that he Ind, by usii,y She's
dreaded name, though with some difiicul.
~, succeeded in getting the necessary men
w guides to conduct III across the
swamps, md that he urged us 10 start at
once, at the same time announcing his in.
tentton of accompanying us, SO US to pro
tect us against treichery. 1 was much
touched BY this net OF Kindness OH the part
Of that WHY old barbarian toward two ut.
terly defenselcss strangers. A thrcc-or
IN his case, for he would have to return,
stx-dny's Journey through those deadly
swanlps was no light undertaking for a
man OF his age, but he consented to 1t
cheerfully in order to promote our safety.
It shows that even among these dreadful
AMalaggcr-whO arc certainly. with their
gloom and their deviiish anil fer0cious
rites, by far the most terrible savages that
!! ever heard nf-therc are people with kind.
lyhearts. OF course self-interest may have
9 something to do with 1t. Hcm may have
Thought that She would suddenly eMppear
n demand an account of us at his hands:
still. allowing for all deductions, 1t
was q great deal more than we could cx-
poet under tho circumstances, and ! can
only say that l shall for as long us / live
cherish a most affectinnate remembrance
Of my nominal parent, old Eillali.
Accordingly. after swallowing some foot,
we started in tho filters, feeling, SO far as
our bodies went, wonderfully like our old
selves after our long rest and sleep. Unjust
leave the condition of our minds to the
imagination.
Then came n terrible pull up the cliff.
Sometimes the ascent was natural, more
often 1t WINS a zigzay roadway cut, no
doubt, in the first instance by the old In
habitaats of Kor. The Amahagger sny
they drive their spare cattle over Il once a
year to pasture outside; all l know is that
those cnttle must be uncnmmonly active
on their feet. OF course the filters were
useless here, so we had to walk.
by midday, however. we reached the
and grand enough the view was from il.
with the plain of K0r. in the center Of
which We could clearly make out the nil.
Jared ruins of the Temple of Truth. to the
one side, and the bounalcss and melan.
choly marsh on the other. This wall of
rock. which had, no doubt, once formed
the lip of the crater, was about II mile and
u half thick, and still covered with clinS.
crs. Nothing grew there, and the only
thing to relieve ones eyes were occasional
pools OF rain-water (for. rain had lately
fallen. wherever their was II little hollow.
Over the fiat crest of this mighty rampant
we went, and then came the descent, which
If not So difficult q matter us tho getting
up, was still sufficiently breakn elk, and
took us till sunset. That night. however,
.wc camped in safety upon the mighty
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meath.
On the following morning, about eleven
O'Clock, began our dicafy journey across
those awful seas Of swamps which l have
already described.
For three whole days, through stencil
and miro. and the all-prevailimg flavor of
fever, did our hearers struggle along, till
at length we came to open rollins-srnuna,
quito uncultivatcd, and mostly t~reeiass.
but covered with gnrnc of Nil sorts, which
lies beyond thatinost desolate, and .%,ithou.
guides, utterly iinprac:ical.la district.
baae farewell, not without some regret, to
old Billali, who stroAed his white i,e;lrl,
II solemnly blessed us.
"Farewisll, my son, the Ral,oon," he
said, and farewell to thee too. oh. Lion.
can do no more to help ye. but ii ever
IL venture no more into lands that sc
Know not, lest we come back nu more. bui
leave ycnr white bones to mark the limit
of your j%onrneyings. Farewell once more:
often shall think of We. nor witt thou for
get me, my Baboon, for t!,ous'l, tiny face
turned and went, and with him wen, the
tail ana sullen-looking bearers, and tia;
was the last that we saw OF the Aniaiay-
scr. We watched them Winding away
with the empty litters like IL procession
bearing deaf men from Il battle, till the
Iva wv ~ HUI SAl SttbLAtslCNt iOtlIsu lIlsAlIs
and hid them, aud then, left utterly desc
late in the vast wilderness, we turned and
guzed around us and at each other.
Three weeks or SO before. four men Ind
entered the marshes of kOr. md now two
of us were dead. and the other two has
gone through adventures and experiences
so strange n terrible that death himself
hath not q moro fearful countc;aGce
Three weeks-and only three weeks! T'r.,l,
time should be measured by events, and
not by the lapse OF hours. 1t seemed like
thirty years since we saw tho last Of our
whale-boat.
1--WE must strike out for tho Zambesi.
Leo" I said, ''bnt God knows il we shall
ever get there"
For the rest, it is OF no public interest,
resembling, as 1t does, the experience oil
more than n Central African traveller.
Suffice it to say that we did, after incrcdi-
BILE h%ardshtps and privations. reach the
Znmbcsi, Which proved to be about a hun.
dred n seventy miles south of where
Billalt left US. There we were for sia
months imprisoned by a savage tribe. who
chiefly on account Of Leo's youthful face
and snow-white lair. From these people
we ultimately escaped, and, crossing the
Zambesi, wandered Off southwark, where
when on the point of starvation, we wers
sufficiently fortunate to fall in with a Port
uguese clephant-hunter, who had followed
a troop of elephants further inlandthan he
had ever been before. This man treated
us most Hospitality, and ultimately through
his assistance we, after innumerable sui
ferfngs and adventures, reached Delago,
Bay, more than eighteen months from the
day when we emerged from the marshes
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