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Updated: May 16, 2025
And they thus discovered that about a mile to the eastward of the drinking-place the river made an S-like bend, some eighteen miles across; also that, instead of wandering steadily south as they believed they had been, while in pursuit of the wounded okapi they must have gradually trended away toward the east, until they had gone some miles beyond the double bend in the river; hence their failure to find the stream again.
"Good, then. Go to your brother. Bring him and his warriors to the point you spoke of, light a fire there to guide us, and in the dark we will join you." Muata hauled on the rope, boarded the Okapi, and set the canoe adrift. "Do as I have said gather the men quickly, light a fire, guide us to the hiding-place, and in the morning we will share the riches. Hurry!"
But, as you love me, don't miss; for, as I am a sinful man, it is none other than the okapi!" The okapi!
"They can't do us any harm," he said, and brought the glasses to bear on the canoe. "The chap appears to be in a stew about something, from the way he glances over his shoulder." They sailed down towards the lonely paddler, who was soon alongside thanks to an extraordinary agility. He appeared to be greatly pleased at the meeting, grinned continuously, and at once prepared to get aboard the Okapi.
The channel into which they steered was so narrow that the branches of the trees joined overhead, and when they tied up, the Okapi was completely hidden.
They took the Okapi to pieces, stowed them away in a dry cavern in the krantz, covered them with the tarpaulins, and pushed on down through the gorge on foot, emerging beyond the hills which bordered the Congo into a rolling country, park-like in appearance. They studied the land well before they continued, first for signs of native villages, and next for game.
The okapi was discovered near that great hunting-ground and, who is to say there are not other animals as strange in its untrodden depths?" "Is it a wild-fowl, the okapi?" "A wild-fowl, you duffer!" exclaimed Venning, indignantly. "Haven't you heard of the dwarfed giraffe, part zebra, discovered by Sir Harry Johnston?
They obeyed him, and he, kneeling on the aft-deck between the two levers, grasped one in either hand, and got more speed out of the Okapi than they had by their united efforts. The muscles stood out like ropes on his brawny arms, and the levers smoked in the slots. "Keep her to the north of the island."
"It was shocking bad luck that you should have lost that okapi, after all," remarked Mildmay, with the sympathy of a true sportsman, as Sir Reginald brought his narrative to a close. "However," he continued, "it is something to have learned that we are in the okapi region; and perhaps you will be more successful next time that is, unless Sir Reginald is anxious to get away from here."
Venning could see nothing in the inky blackness, but he knew the beast had seen the Okapi from the short note of alarm it sounded. Immediately the alarm was repeated. Snorts and splashes arose from all sides. Some great beast who had been standing unnoticed within a few yards of the boat, crashed through the bushes into the water with an uproar that woke the sleepers. "What is it?" cried Compton.
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