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Updated: May 16, 2025
"They are after us," and Venning jerked his head back, while still bending to his work. The hunter loosened the canvas awning, and stood up for a long look aft. Then he faced about, and threw a quick glance up-river. "Keep her straight for that wooded island," he said, pointing ahead towards the south bank; and Venning pulled the steering-line to place the Okapi on a new course. Mr.
But the Okapi slipped on, making a musical ripple under her bows, until she beat up under the great wall of woods on the south bank, when she tacked away into the gathering darkness, feeling for the wind.
The men will be here at nightfall, and the fire will be lit to guide you." "It is good," said Muata. "We will wait." The man stood for some time watching, then went into the bush, and the crew of the Okapi, to divert suspicion, got out fishing-lines and fished; but all the time Mr. Hume, lying under the awning, watched the distant island, which shielded an unknown number of their watchful foes.
I am bitterly sorry and disappointed to be obliged to say it, but I think there can be no doubt that we have lost that okapi.
The Okapi ran her stern into the bank, and the two stepped aboard, Mr. Hume going forward to the wheel, with his rifle in his hand. "Shove her off; run as silently as you can out of hearing, and then work the levers." Compton looked inquiringly at Venning as he picked up the oars, and then at the village, from which came a loud babble. "Is he free already?" Venning nodded.
Hume had an opportunity of speaking without the fear of being overheard, for they finished putting the Okapi together, and worked her out by the levers into the river, where she gleamed in the sun. "I dare say you think I am a brute," he said, "and I don't blame you; but if we mean to save Muata's life, we must appear to be altogether indifferent to his fate.
He could see the men with rifles, aiming, as it seemed, straight at him, and then he ducked his head as he saw the smoke once more belch from the seven-pounder. At the same moment he was nearly capsized by the sudden swerve of the Okapi, as she almost turned on her keel. The shot struck the water so close that the spray drenched them. Compton looked round and shouted aloud "They're aground!
The gun from the launch fired, a yell rose from every side, and all the canoes near dashed forward. Mr. Hume shoved out, and the Okapi slipped up-stream undetected under the uproar, darting from one island to another, and keeping as near the banks as possible. They were doing splendidly!
The result was that Sir Reginald and Lethbridge ultimately yielded to the professor's entreaties, the baronet with a certain amount of inward misgiving, and Lethbridge with a resigned shrug of the shoulders. The trail or rather, what von Schalckenberg believed to be the trail was accordingly followed for another half-hour, but without the discovery of any further sign of the okapi.
Hume. "We want no prowlers about our camp." They turned the Okapi down-stream again, and considered where they should hide her, for that was a thing to be done with the utmost care.
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