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He sat down in the bows with his face toward the river, and the boys laughed as they worked the levers. "Ripping!" said Compton, feeling quite happy, as he touched his precious journal. "As good as finding a new butterfly," said Venning. Mr. Hume nodded his head gravely several times, and then a smile came into his eyes. "I guess," he said, "we'll have some good hunting."
"And we could fix up mosquito curtains round the sides. That is A 1. Now, what is her name to be?" And Mr. Hume looked at Venning. He had thought of a name, and was prompt with it the Okapi. "And what does that mean?" asked the builder, with a smile. Venning explained, and the name was adopted. "Now," said the builder, "if Mr.
They dozed under the influence of the sunlight, blinking their eyes like cats, and when Mr. Hume stirred at last, the sun was slipping down the western slope. "We must be going," he said, looking down. "I suppose so," said Venning, wearily. "There's something astir down there. Men are moving up the slope towards the gorge and, by George, they are Hassan's men too!"
"Bring a light." The Zanzibar boy complied, and, holding a taper above his head, looked not for mosquitoes, but at the rifles in the corner. "The skeeters, master," he muttered, with an evil squint at Compton, who was blinking at the light. "Better get back into your hammock, Venning. You can go, boy; and keep a good watch, for we are coming to the thieves' hour."
The chains were greased, the deck riveted in position, the mast fixed, and the boat washed down. That done, Venning put into effect a scheme he had been turning over in his mind for a regular hot-air bath that would steam all the ague, rheumatism, and fever out of them. "What we must do," Mr. Hume was always insisting, "is to keep the circulation active."
The first part of the watch was by no means bad so the boys decided when they had settled down, Venning under a bush palm and Compton behind a log.
Now they had found the opening, they did not know what to do, far; it was not inviting, and they stood looking at it warily: "You would have me enter first," she said quietly. "Come, then, for it is not all dark within." She disappeared, and Mr. Hume followed next, with a whisper to Venning that they must not let her get out of sight.
Hume, waving a bronzed hand towards the wall. "I think so, sir." "Just reel off the names." Venning reeled off the names of a score or more of animals without hesitation, and Mr. Hume looked pleased. "There are some men," he said, "who come in here and talk over me and round me and under me about fur and feather, and they can't tell a bighorn from a koodoo by the horns on the wall.
"But I don't like the look of that path. Means people. But what sort of people? And the kaross and the goats'-milk. People again. No good taking risks." He went back to the fire, drew the sticks away, thrust the burning ends into crevices, and left the comer in darkness once more. Then he sat down by Venning with his rifle across his knees and waited.
"One of these I have seen, and he also. It was a great thing to kill two; of all things that walk they are the fiercest." "And I am very thirsty," said Compton. "Their home is in the trees," continued Muata. Venning nodded. "Leo arboriensis." "Venningii," added Compton, as he took his lips from a water-bottle. "And now we'll have breakfast, if you don't mind." "We were stopped by ants," said Mr.