HUNTING IN THE JUNGLE 



WITH GUN AND GUIDE. 



CHAPTER I. 



OFF FOR THE JUNGLE. 



WAS young and fond of adventure, full of 

 spirits and good health ; and when my friend 

 the Captain offered me a bunk in his own 

 cabin for an African voyage, I promptly gave up my 

 desk and duties in a New York shipping-house, and 

 accepted the invitation at once. It was a long voyage, 

 but its tedium was relieved for me by an occasional 

 shot at some bird lost in the desert of waters, or by 

 the capture of an unwary shark or porpoise when a 

 long calm gave the men the leisure to think of such 

 sport. Then in the watches of the summer nights the 

 Captain and I would pace the deck for hours, while he 

 spun me yarns of shipwreck and adventure on every 

 coast. He had been in the English service, on this 

 very African station, when the energies of the Royal 



