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African Camp Fires

Chapter 2 THE FAREWELL.

Word Count: 1058    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

in the advertisements, or the lithograph wherein she cut grandly and evenly through huge waves to the manifest discomfiture of infinitesimal sailing craft bobbing alongside. She was manned

aid it little attention, for we were still in full enjoyment of sunny France, where, in our own experience, it had rained two months steadily. Indeed, at this moment it was raining, raining a

lf-dozen roughs lounged aimlessly. A little bent old woman with a shawl over her head searched here and there. Occasionally she would find a twisted splinter of wood torn from the piles by a hawser or gouged from the planking by heavy freight, or kicked from th

oman. She heard the clink of the fall, and looked up bewildered. One of the waterside roughs slouched forward. The Englishman shouted a warning and a threat, indicating in pantomime for whom the coin was intended. To our surprise that evil-looking wharf rat smiled and waved his han

ng, but in a very kindly sort of way it seemed to me; and the very wharf rats and gamins, wolfish and fierce in their everyday life of the water-front, seemed to take a genuine pleasure in pointing out to her the resting-place of those her dim old eyes had not seen. Silver pieces followed. These were too wonderful. She grew more and more excited, until several of the passengers leaning over the rail began to murmur warningly, fearing harm. After picking up each of these silver pieces, she bowed and gestured very gracefully, waving both hands outwa

t, wealthy, powerful, kind friends were departing on their long voyage over mysterious seas. Again and again, very earnestly, she repeated the graceful, slow pantomime-the wave of the arms outward, the eyes raised to heaven, the han

to the maze of the street beyond. Concluding that she had decided to get quickly home wi

e white cloth, of which she had evidently been in quest. This she unfolded and waved vigorously with both hands. Until we had passed quite from sight she stood there signalling her farewell. Long after we were beyond distinguishing her figure we could catch the flut

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1 Chapter 1 THE OPEN DOOR.2 Chapter 2 THE FAREWELL.3 Chapter 3 PORT SAID.4 Chapter 4 SUEZ.5 Chapter 5 THE RED SEA.6 Chapter 6 ADEN.7 Chapter 7 THE INDIAN OCEAN.8 Chapter 8 MOMBASA.9 Chapter 9 A TROPICAL JUNGLE.10 Chapter 10 THE SABLE.11 Chapter 11 A MARCH ALONG THE COAST.12 Chapter 12 THE FIRE.13 Chapter 13 UP FROM THE COAST.14 Chapter 14 A TOWN OF CONTRASTS.15 Chapter 15 PEOPLE.16 Chapter 16 RECRUITING.17 Chapter 17 AN OSTRICH FARM AT MACHAKOS.18 Chapter 18 THE FIRST LIONESS.19 Chapter 19 THE DOGS.20 Chapter 20 BONDONI.21 Chapter 21 RIDING THE PLAINS.22 Chapter 22 THE SECOND LIONESS.23 Chapter 23 THE BIG LION.24 Chapter 24 THE FIFTEEN LIONS.25 Chapter 25 VOI.26 Chapter 26 THE FRINGE-EARED ORYX.27 Chapter 27 ACROSS THE SERENGETTI.28 Chapter 28 DOWN THE RIVER.29 Chapter 29 THE LESSER KUDU.30 Chapter 30 ADVENTURES BY THE WAY.31 Chapter 31 THE LOST SAFARI.32 Chapter 32 THE BABU.33 Chapter 33 OVER THE LIKIPIA ESCARPMENT.34 Chapter 34 TO THE KEDONG.35 Chapter 35 THE TRANSPORT RIDER.36 Chapter 36 ACROSS THE THIRST.37 Chapter 37 THE SOUTHERN GUASO NYERO.38 Chapter 38 THE LOWER BENCHES.39 Chapter 39 NOTES ON THE MASAI.40 Chapter 40 THROUGH THE ENCHANTED FOREST.41 Chapter 41 NAIOKOTUKU.42 Chapter 42 SCOUTING IN THE ELEPHANT FOREST.43 Chapter 43 THE TOPI CAMP.44 Chapter 44 THE UNKNOWN LAND.45 Chapter 45 returned the next day from V.'s boma, bringing more potio and some trade goods. We sent a good present back to Naiokotuku, and prepared for an early start into the new country.46 Chapter 46 THE ROAN.