In Search Of The Okapi A Story Of Adventure In Central Africa
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In Search of the Okapi. A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Ernest Glanville Pdf
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"Dick, why do you study Arabic so closely?""To understand Arabic.""And further?"Dick Compton closed his book and placed it carefully in a leather case."It is a pity you were born curious, Venning, otherwise you would have made an excellent companion for a studious man. 'Why do I wish to understand Arabic?' Why do you stand on one leg watching a tadpole shed its tail.""Excuse me, I always sit down to watch a tadpole.""Yet I have seen you poised on one leg for an hour like a heron, afraid to put down the other foot lest you should scare some wretched pollywog. Why?""I do it for the love of the thing, Dick. What is a page of your crooked signs compared with a single green pond and all that it holds?""By Jove! Is that so-and would you find a volume in a caterpillar?""Why not? Listen to me, Dick. Take the silver-spiked caterpillar, with a skin of black satin and a length that runs to four inches. He lives his life in the topmost boughs of an African palm-a feathered dome amid the forest-and there beneath the blue sky he browses till he descends into the warm earth to sleep in chrysalis form before he emerges as a splendid moth, with glass windows in his wide wings to sail with the fire-flies through the dark vaults of the silent woods.""All that from a caterpillar?""That and much more, Dicky.""And where will this study of the caterpillar lead you, Godfrey? One can't live on a caterpillar.""Yet there is one kind-fat and creamy-that makes good soup.""Ugh, you cormorant! But tell me seriously, what is the end of your studies-where will they lead you?""To Central Africa.""Do you mean that, Venning?""I do, Dick. There is one spot on the map of Africa that is marked black. That spot is covered over hundreds of square miles by the unexplored forest. Think what that means to me!""Fever most likely-or three inches of spear-head.""A forest big enough to cover England! Just think of the new forms of life-from a new ant to an elephant or hornless giraffe. 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?"
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Ernest Glanville (5 May 1855 in Wynberg - 6 September 1925 in Rondebosch) was a South African author, known especially for his short stories which are widely read and taught in South Africa. He also wrote seventeen historical novels. Glanville was educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown from January 1869 to May 1871. His schooling was interrupted when he and his father transported the first printing press from Grahamstown to Griqualand West by ox wagon in 1870 and began publishing a newspaper in Kimberley. In addition to his literary works, he worked in journalism for the Cape Argus and other newspapers, and collaborated with Dr MacGowan on the 1905 Jubilee Hymn. He was married to Emma Priscilla Powell, with whom he had two children-Thomas and Ada.
"Dick, why do you study Arabic so closely?" "To understand Arabic." "And further?" Dick Compton closed his book and placed it carefully in a leather case. "It is a pity you were born curious, Venning, otherwise you would have made an excellent companion for a studious man. 'Why do I wish to understand Arabic?' Why do you stand on one leg watching a tadpole shed its tail."
Peter Trollope was a barber-surgeon. He carried on his useful art (for in his deft hands it was in truth an art) at the sign of the Pestle and Mortar, down against Sutton Pool. He was a great man in Plymouth town, by reason of his entertaining talk and his skill alike in surgery and in hairdressing; and his little shop was the lounging-place of all the idle young gallants of the port, who came in to discuss the latest news from London, to gossip about their neighbours' affairs and about the ships, or to learn the tricks and fashions in the new art of taking tobacco. Men who had received sword-wounds in street frays or damaged skulls in tavern brawls came to him to have their hurts dressed and plastered; he had a famous tincture[Pg 14] for the toothache, a certain remedy for melancholy, and at curing the common ailments of children and old women no doctor in the town could beat him. Mariners just home after a long voyage came to him to have their overgrown locks shorn and their beards singed. Poor workmen and apprentices came to him to be polled for twopence, were soon trimmed round as a cheese, and dismissed with a hearty "God speed you, my master!" There were many high and mighty gentlemen among his customers too, I do assure you; for he had starched the beard of the great Sir Walter Raleigh, curled the moustachios of brave Sir Francis Drake, and tied up the lovelocks of courtly Sir Anthony Killigrew.
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