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It would be difficult to point out any deficiency on Miss Bird's part in those qualifications which constitute a great traveller. Physically as well as mentally she seems to have proved herself the equal of men. Endurance, courage, promptitude, decision, the capacity for quiet and accurate observation, the ready adaptability to circumstances she possessed all these high virtues.
He turns to Gentleman, he went on rapidly, 'and he says, "Bailey, I owe it all to you, because if you hadn't told me to insult her folks " He leaned on the traveller's table and fixed him with an eye that pleaded for sympathy. ''Ow about that? he said. 'Isn't that crisp? "Insult her folks!" Them was his very words. "Insult her folks." The traveller looked at him inquiringly.
'Aha, he knows some Arabic. He is a missionary, not a traveller, said Suleymân, who now sat up and showed keen interest. 'I might have known it, for the touring season is long past. He rose with dignified deliberation and remounted. We followed him as he rode slowly down towards the scene of strife.
The anguish of death entered into the soul at the sight of that spectre, half mummy and half foetus; they approached it as does the traveller who is shown at Strasburg the daughter of an old count of Sarvenden, embalmed in her bride's dress: that childish skeleton makes one shudder, for her slender and livid hand wears the wedding-ring and her head decays enwreathed in orange-blossoms.
The Frenchmen mapped parts of the Sahara which no European had ever succeeded in reaching before even the great German traveller, who had crossed the Sahara in all directions, had not been there. The most dangerous tracts were left behind, and the Tuaregs had offered no resistance: indeed some of their chiefs had been friendly.
In conclusion, whether we will or not, we pity the unfortunate; when we see their suffering we suffer too. Even the most depraved are not wholly without this instinct, and it often leads them to self-contradiction. The highwayman who robs the traveller, clothes the nakedness of the poor; the fiercest murderer supports a fainting man.
"A clergyman living in the immediate neighbourhood, who told the writer the story, said that some people believed the ghostly traveller had been safely 'laid' many years ago in the waters of the lake not far off.
"Kankan," says the traveller, "is a small town near the left bank of the Milo, a pretty river, which comes from the south, and waters the Kissi district, where it takes its rise, flowing thence in a north-westerly direction to empty itself into the Niger, two or three days' journey from Kankan.
"A traveller partly for business and partly for pleasure? why, the stage partakes of both; it is a labour to the performers, and affords, or is meant to afford, pleasure to the spectators.
No traveller can make us believe that, under the torrid zone, there are a nation every man of which has one large flat foot, with which, lying upon his back, he covers himself from the sun.
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