harvest-making

Updated: May 16, 2025

The route also being so diversified with hills, afforded fresh objects of attraction at every turn; and to-day, by good fortune, the usually troublesome people have attended more to their harvest-making, and left me to the enjoyment of the scenery. My trusty Blissett made a florikan pay the penalty of death for his temerity in attempting a flight across the track.

John Hanning Speke - What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile