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Автор: M. Stanley Henry, Wallace Knox Thomas
Название: The Boy Travellers on the Congo
ISBN: 9781695070677
Издательство: Independently Published
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1695070674
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 556
Вес: 1.09 кг.
Дата издания: 23.09.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 254 x 203 x 29
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Not at all, replied the Doctor. There are plenty of men in Africa, but they are not particularly anxious to work. Their wants are few, and they can live upon very little; consequently they are not over-desirous to go on a journey of several hundred miles and carry heavy burdens on their shoulders or heads. Added to their laziness is a lack of a feeling of responsibility or of honor. After engaging to go on a journey they fail to appear at the appointed time, and whenever they Pg 34] are weary of their work they coolly drop their burdens at the side of the road and make off into the bushes. In the first few days of a journey a traveller is always deserted by many of his porters, and it is only when he gets far from the coast and has possibly entered an enemys country that he can keep his men together. All travellers have the same story to tell, and they all agree that the Zanzibari porters are the most faithful of all in keeping their engagements, or, to say it better, the least unfaithful. For this reason, also, Zanzibar is a favorite starting-point for explorers. Frank will now read to us about the difficulties which Mr. Stanley encountered in outfitting his expedition.

The Boy Travellers on the Congo, M. Stanley Henry, Wallace Knox Thomas