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appearance. Fourthly, is the stare stupid, which 

 denoted the hebete incurious savage. The stare 

 discreet is that of sultans and great men; the stare 

 indiscreet at unusual seasons is affected by women and 

 children. Sixthly, is the stare flattering — it was 

 exceedingly rare, and equally so was the stare con- 

 temptuous. Eighthly, is the stare greedy ; it was 

 denoted by the eyes restlessly bounding from one object 

 to another, never tired, never satisfied. Ninthly, is 

 the stare peremptory and pertinacious, peculiar to 

 crabbed age. The dozen concludes with the stare 

 drunken, the stare fierce or pugnacious, and finally the 

 stare cannibal, which apparently considered us as 

 articles of diet. At last, weary of the stare by day, and 

 the tent by night, I preferred inhabiting a bundle of 

 clothes in the wet hold of the canoe; this, at least, 

 saved the trouble of wading through the water, of 

 scrambling over the stern, and of making a way between 

 the two close lines of grumbling and surly blacks that 

 manned the paddle-benches ; whenever, after a mean- 

 ingless halt, some individual thought proper to scream 

 out " Safari ! " ( journey !) 



Curious to say, despite all these discomforts our 

 health palpably improved. My companion, though 

 still uncomfortably deaf, was almost cured of his blind- 

 ness. When that ulcerated mouth, which rendered it 

 necessary for me to live by suction — generally milk and 

 water — for seventeen days, had returned to its usual 

 state, my strength gradually increased. Although my feet 

 were still swollen by the perpetual wet and by the pain- 

 ful funza or entozoon, my hands partially lost their 

 numbness, and the fingers which before could hold the 

 pen only for a few minutes were once more able freely to 

 write and sketch. In fact, I date a slow but sensible 



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