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Title: The story of Africa and its explorers
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London : Cassell
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advice before leavingEngland, Take a thousand men or make yourwill! But between the 15th of March, 1883,and the 2nd of June, 1884, the period duringwhich he was engaged on his task, thoughthere were times when the former alternativewould have been desirable, and the latter wasonly too probable, the explorer had neveroccasion to kill or be killed—his invariabletact enabling him to go where a thousandmen could not have gone with safety. THE MASAI. 309 Patience, it is true, was often tried; but hismotto was— CH va piano va sano;Chi va sano va lontano. He who goes gently goes safe: he whogoes safe goes far —so that with 140 men alltold, most of them the veriest offscourings of have resorted more frequently to violence,albeit, Dr. Peters, the German traveller, whomakes this absurd commentary, in spite ofhis love of firearms, failed to do as well as theScotsman without them. After an unsuccess-ful start, in Avhich, however, he reached Kili-manjaro, and ascended it about 9,000 feet, he
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HILL OF NDARA, BETWEEN KILIMANJARO AND THE COAST. (From a Sketch by Bishop Tucker.) Zanzibar, he had again the satisfaction of completing his mission without bloodshed. The Masai were all that rumour had painted them (pp. 311, 312). Cowardly in the face of a superior force, they were the terror of their feebler neighbours, and bore so bad a name that the Gallas, cruel, immoral, and barbarous though they are, .regard it as a ™. ,, . mortal insult to be compared withThe Masai . , ^ and their this race of black men. Yet the onlycoun ry. criticism a successor in the samecountry could offer on Thomsons manage-ment of his expedition was that he should returned from Taveta in order to get a fewmore men and replenish his diminished storeof goods, starting again in July from Mom-basa. The Masai were not friendly, maraudingbands doing their best to intercept him, indefault of Dr. Fischer having escaped theirclutches; and the local chiefs never lost anopportunity of fleecing the traveller in t

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