Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 234
followed me up-river until wecame abreast of another long stretch of vil-lages. Here the natives did not confine them-selves to verbal insults, and I Avas compelled tofight them. As I passed close in-shore, steam-ing slowly past their villages, an ominous sul-leness was noticeable on the features… … THE FIGHT WITH THE CANNIBALS. 766 SIX YEARS IN THE WILDS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. One of these stuck into the sun-deck of myboat, just escaping my head by about fourinches. This actual attack I was bound to punish.I put the nose of my boat in-shore and steamedahead. The enemy huddled together to…
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