THE WORLD 8 WONDERS. 



AFRICA. 



CHAPTER III. Ancient Discoveries The most Wonderful of all Countries Ancient 

 Splendor of North Africa Birth place of the Cross and Crescent Earliest Explora- 

 tions John Ogilby's History Ancient Literature Concerning Africa Disadvantages 

 of Native Africans The Wonders of Egypt The People Infamous Laws Building 

 of the Pyramids and other Great Undertakings The Slave Mark which Ham bore 

 Modern travels through Africa The Source of the Nile known two Centuries ago 

 Wonders of the Nile EXPLORATIONS OF CAPTAINS SPEKE AND GRANT 

 Preparations for the Journey The Scientific Requirements of an Expedition First 

 Sight of Hippotami Traces of big Game The people of Ugogo A Rhinoceros 

 Hunt Shooting by Moonlight A Grotesque Scene Another Rhinoceros Hunt 

 Hunting Buffaloes Three Exciting Encounters Fifty Lashes for Desertion Hold- 

 ing a King Accountable Recruiting the Force The Land of the Moon 54 67 



CHAPTER IV. Between two Fires Manua Sera, the Guerilla Chief Seeking 

 Speke's Aid Meeting with an old Friend ; Queen of a Tribe Liberation of a Slave 

 Circumcision among the Natives King Rumanika The old King's Delight Fat 

 Wives Entertained by Native Musicians Deciding the Right to Rule by Magic A 

 Mystic Drum and three Mighty Maggots Buying five Maidens and fifty Cows with 

 a dead King More Magical tests Freaks of a Spirit-directed Thunderbolt More 

 Rhinoceros Hunting A Magic Gun A Narrow Escape Pigmies and Giants 

 Savage Royalty How Subjects Manifest their Loyalty Drilling with a Red-hot Iron 

 Presentation of young Virgins The Royal Magicians The King's Magic Horn 

 Killing Subjects for looking at the King A Sport-loving Boy King Shooting a man 

 for fun Visit to the King Only a Woman Shot Shooting Birds by Magic Mtesa 

 Dressed like an Organ-grinder's Monkey Executions every day A Monstrously fat 

 Queen Savage Cruelties Sentences of an old Man and a young Girl Horrible death 

 of one of the King's Officers Cutting a Page's ears off Captain Speke saves the 

 Queen's life The King Reviewing his Army Grant's Arrival with Supplies Sacri- 

 fice of a child Departure of the Expedition for Unyoro 67 100 



CHAPTER V. Hard Travelling to reach the Nile Among Crocodiles and Hippopot- 

 ami A wonderful Country Discovering the Nile's Source The Victoria N'yanza 

 A fight on the Lake Carbine against Spears An Elephant Hunt Dogs with 

 Horns Kidgwiga's Wonderful Stories Feasting on Mountains, Lakes and Human 

 Flesh A Wonderful Sorcerer How he Found a Stolen Water gauge Meeting with 

 King Kamrasi Another Royal Beggar Kamrasi'sold Maid Sisters Offering to cut 

 up four Wives for Amusement Delays and Broken Promises African Twins The 

 queer Dwarf Buying Liberty from Kamrasi Departure of the Expedition for 

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CHAPTER VI. Down the Kafu River in Canoes A Pleasant Journey A Wise Man 

 of Africa Instruments for killing Elephants Remarkable Fish Visit to Chongi 

 Ceremony of the Meeting Naked people A Happy Meeting not Wholly Unalloyed 

 Mahamed, a Turkish Trader An old Scoundrel How Mahamed outwHted Speke 



