The new Africa : a journey up the Chobe and down the Okovanga rivers : a record of exploration and sport (1897)
Schulz, Aurel, Hammar, August, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : W. Heinemann · leaf 180
om plainly — in a canoe, and went about a mile westwards towards the kraal of a small chief called Kankombe or Kikonto, to whom I had to give four pieces of cloth before he would provide me with a guide, or allow me to proceed to Matambanja’s. The guide he gave led us for about a mile, and then, as… … on his heels in spite of his efforts to get ahead, and before evening he slacked off a bit, but always managed to keep another boy between himself and my personality, as if in fear that direct contact with me would injure him. He was absol¬ utely the wildest human being I ever met, and could not…
Botswana -- Description and travel
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