The Project Gutenberg eBook, In Search of the Okapi, by Ernest Glanville
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: In Search of the Okapi
A Story of Adventure in Central Africa
Author: Ernest Glanville
Release Date: January 28, 2006 [eBook #17615]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN SEARCH OF THE OKAPI***
E-text prepared by Charles Klingman
IN SEARCH OF THE OKAPI
A Story of Adventure in Central Africa
by
ERNEST GLANVILLE
Author of "The Diamond Seekers" "The Fossicker" "Tales from the
Veld" etc.
Illustrated by William Rainey, R.I.
Chicago A. C. McClurg & Co.
1904
CONTENTS
CHAP.
I. THE HUNTER
II. A NOVEL CRAFT
III. THE CANOE ADRIFT
IV. THE STORY OF MUATA
V. TROUBLE BREWING
VI. THE FLIGHT
VII. THE THOUSAND ISLANDS
VIII. THE BULLS AND THE WILD DOGS
IX. A LION'S CHARGE
X. A NIGHT IN THE REEDS
XI. A TRAP
XII. THE MAN-EATERS
XIII. THE TREE-LION
XIV. THE OVERHEAD PATH
XV. FIGHT WITH A GORILLA
XVI. ACROSS THE LAGOON
XVII. THE PLACE OF REST
XVIII. THE FIGHT IN THE DEFILE
XIX. THE MAKER OF LAWS
XX. THE SECRET WAY
XXI. A VOICE FROM THE DEAD
XXII. A TERRIBLE NIGHT
XXIII. THROUGH THE VAULTS
XXIV. LETTING IN THE RIVER
XXV. THE CRY IN THE NIGHT
IN SEARCH OF THE OKAPI
CHAPTER I
THE HUNTER
"Dick, why do you study Arabic so closely?"
"To understand Arabic."
"And further?"
Dick Compton closed his book and placed it carefully in a leather
case.
"It is a pity you were born curious, Venning, otherwise you would
have made an excellent companion for a studious man. 'Why do I wish
to understand Arabic?' Why do you stand on one leg watching a
tadpole shed its tail."
"Excuse me, I always sit down to watch a tadpole."
"Yet I have seen you poised on one leg for an hour like a heron,
afraid to put down the other foot lest you should scare some
wretched pollywog. Why?"
"I do it for the love of the thing, Dick. What is a page of your
crooked signs compa
|