Identifier: daringdeedsintro00feat (find matches)
Title: Daring deeds in the tropics. A thrilling narrative of remarkable adventures, terrible experiences, amazing achievements and important discoveries of great travelers in southern climes
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: (Feather, A. G.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904 Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. E. Potter & co

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d beside a glorious fountain, the name oiwhich was Massouey, but I at once christened it theElephants own Fountain. This was a very remark-able spot on the southern border of endless elephantforests, at which I had at length arrived. The foun-tain was deep and strong, situated in a hollow at theeastern extremity of an extensive vley, and its mar-gin was surrounded by a level stratum of solid oldred sandstone. Here and there lay a thick layer ofsoil upon the rock, and this was packed fiat with thefresh spoor of elephants. Around the waters edgethe very rock was worn down by the gigantic feetwhich for ages had trodden there. We drew up thewagons on a hillock on the eastern side of the water.I had just cooked my breakfast, and commenced to like snow in spring. In the more remote districts, Adhere fire-arms have not ye?been introduced, with the single exception of the rhinoceros the game is to befound in numbers much greater tb*n Mr. Gumming ever saw.—Restatefus i»South Africa, 169-70.
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THROUGH THE WILDS OF AFRICA. 257 feed, when I heard my men exclaim, Almagtig keekde ghroote clomp cameel; and raising my eyes frommy sassayby stew, I beheld a truly beautiful and veryunusual scene. From the margin of the fountainthere extended an open level vley, without a tree orbush, that stretched away about a mile to the north-ward, where it was bounded by extensive groves oiwide-spreading mimosas. Up the middle of this vleystalked a troop of ten colossal giraffes, flanked by twolarge herds of blue wildebeests and zebras, with anadvanced guard of pallahs. They were all coming tothe fountain to drink, and would be within rifle-shotof the wagons before I could finish my breakfast. 1however, continued to swallow my food with the ut-most expedition, having directed my men to catchand saddle * Colesberg. In a few minutes the giraffeswere slowly advancing within two hundred yards,stretching their graceful necks, and gazing in wonderat the unwonted wagons. Grasping my rifle, I nowmounted

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