Through the Kalahari Desert; a narrative of a journey with gun, camera, and note-book to Lake N'gami and back (1886)
Farini, G Antonio · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 461
Stuck in the Mud. and slioutecl out the good news to Lulu. At that moment my feet sank deep into the slimy mud and the water wetted the covering to the plates, which were strapped to my back, and I had a narrow escape of spoiling the fruit of all our labours ; but fortune con- tinued to smile upon… … THE AXNA FALLS. gum; we looked like sewer navvies minus the long boot. To climb up the thin rope with such a load of slime was a more difficult task than ever "greasy pole " presented, and we had to set to work to scrape one another. Lulu went up first, vfhile I held the rope and kept it rigid,…
Kalahari Desert
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