Great African Travellers : From Mungo Park to Livingstone And Stanley
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He, meantime, rests and feeds with his pony, resuming :the chase the next day. He follows the birds in the same ;way as at first, they from constant fasting becoming weaker, till after the second or third day he is able to ride in among them and knock them down in succession. The party had at length secured, after considerable trouble, the camels and horses they required, and were encamped at (Berbera, which was completely deserted by its inhabitants, when they were surprised at night by a larg...e band of robbers. .Lieutenant Stroyan was killed and Lieutenant Speke was ,made prisoner and desperately wounded, but, springing to his feet just as a robberwas aboujt to run him through with his spear, he knocked over his assailant with his hands, though bound together, apd madjC his escape to the sea-shore, ,to which the r^st of the party had, already fled. They were -Jiere taken on ^pard a vessd, whiph.had proviijentially put in tiie day before, and in her returned to Aden. Although his first expedition had terminated so disastrouslj^ on hiy arrival in England Lieutenant Speke again yoltmteered to accompany Lieutenant Burton on an expedition t6 survey that pj^(Of ^he centre of Africa, in the neighbQUfhqod of the ;234 CAPTAIN SPEKE 'S DISCO VERIES.
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