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borne a milder or a more innocent aspect. Our bold 
friends, reeling and jostling one another in their eager- 
ness to offend, seized their spears and shields, and 
began to chant in bacchanalian tones a song that was 
tipsily discordant. Some seized their slings and flung 
stones to a great distance, which we applauded. Then 
one of them, under the influence of wine, and spirits 
elated by the chant, waxed bolder, and looked as 
though he would aim at myself, seated observant but 
mute in the stern of my boat. I made a motion with 
my hand as though deprecating such an action. The 
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sooty villain seemed to become at once animated by an 
hysteric passion, and whirled his stone over my head, 
a loud drunken cheer applauding his boldness. 
Perceiving that they were becoming wanton through 
our apparently mild demeanour, I seized my revolver 
and fired rapidly into the water, in the direction the 
stone had been flung, and the effect was painfully 
ludicrous. The bold, insolent bacchanals at the first 
shot had sprung overboard, and were swimming for 
dear life to Ngevi, leaving their canoe in our hands. 
“ Friends, come back, come back ; why this fear ? cried 
out our interpreter ; “ we simply wished to show you 
