Hunting in the Jungle With Gun and Guide After Large Game: Adapted From Les Animaux Sauvages (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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We were cruising off the mouth of the Congo, looking out for slavers, and as a pleasant change, in the middle of the rainy season, the night was starlight. The cheering cry of Sail he I aroused the slumbering watch of H. M. Brig Pantaloon,' of which I was first officer, and dispelled my half-waking dreams. Sending word to the captain, I made all sail on the ship, and in a few minutes our spars were covered with canvas and the brig gliding through the smooth water before the land-wind which had just sprung up.

Our men clustered forward eagerly trying to discover the chase, which as yet was visible to no eyes except those of the Krooman at the masthead who had first reported the strange sail. As a colored man's power of vision is generally superior at night to that of a white man, the suspense was endured for nearly a quarter of an hour, when the good faith of the lookout was verified, the strange sail being plainly visible from deck on the line of the horizon, and the distance between the Panta loon and her prey rapidly lessening.

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