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Title: From the Niger to the Nile
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Alexander, Boyd, 1873-1910 Talbot, Percy Amaury, 1877-1945
Subjects: Alexander-Gosling Expedition Birds
Publisher: London, E. Arnold
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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und the fish, were soon employing the same tactics as Ihave described in the last chapter. There is Httle to say of our journey to Kaddai, for we wereworking too closely, mapping the western shore-line, to allowof the occurrence of fresh incidents. Ordinarily, when therewas a wind for sailing, the boats accompUshed the distancein a day, but this time we took five over the journey. Talbottravelled in the boat, while I went along the shore, mappingits outline. We kept one another in sight, and he landedeach evening in time for chop, and to camp the night.We lived for the most part on fish, for we had got a goodsupply of the dried sort for the boys, and some fresh forourselves, which we replenished the second day from afishing-station on a small island, whence the Budumashad, as usual, disappeared on our approach. On the thirdday we arrived opposite Arregi, a village four miles inland,where we sent in and got corn and fowls. That nightthe harmattan brought the water up 500 yards, causing
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o a o JH ><;o CHEISTMAS IN CAMP AT KADDAI 339 us to jump out of bed suddenly and retreat farther inland.This was our first experience of being caught napping bythe invading Lake, and it struck us as very strange andweird, for one would have expected water driven all thatdistance by the influence of the wind to have given warningof its coming with the lapping noise of waves, but there wasnot a sound of a ripple as it swiftly stole up the land. Uponthis trip in particular, Talbot noticed numbers of dead anddying fish, some 4 lb. in weight, floating upon the water, anot uncommon sight anywhere on the Lake; they were thevictims of a large stinging fish. On catching sight of thecarcases, the boys used to make for them and collectthem for their supper, not passing by even those that hadbeen drifting long enough to make their presence feltupon the air. But all the boys had to yield thepalm in this respect to one of the biggest of theNupe polers, whom they nicknamed Kurra, or theJackal,

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