On mustering them I found that a good number had vanished
during the night, where to I do not know. Still a mob of well over two
hundred people, a considerable portion of whom were women and
children, remained, whose one idea seemed to be to accompany us
wherever we might wander. So with this miscellaneous following at
length we started.
[*] To my sorrow we never saw this ivory again.--A.Q.
To describe our adventures during the next month would be too long if
not impossible, for to tell the truth, after the lapse of so many
years, these have become somewhat entangled in my mind. Our great
difficulty was to feed such a multitude, for the store of rice and
grain, upon which we were quite unable to keep a strict supervision,
they soon devoured. Fortunately the country through which we passed,
at this time of the year (the end of the wet season) was full of game,
of which, travelling as we did very slowly, we were able to shoot a
great deal. But this game killing, delightful as it may be to the
sportsman, soon palled on us as a business.
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