In Wildest Africa -* 



Such incidents, it will be recognised, can very easily 

 lead to serious results. 



Later I was to have an unpleasant experience in 

 regard to natives. A band of nomadic hunters, perhaps 

 those who had encamped where I found the zebra-skins, 

 had " gone tor " two of my cameras. They had taken away 

 all those parts of them that could be of any use to them, 

 and left them of course quite useless to me. It is note- 

 worthy that they did not smash them to pieces, as 

 Europeans might have done. They had merely detached 

 the metal portions and others which they could turn to 

 some account. This loss was, however, very annoying 

 to me, and I found it necessary to establish two relays 

 of men on guard to look after the sole remaining 

 apparatus throughout the day. 



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