ABSTRACT
Shire, passing much lovely scenery on our way, and stopped from time to time at villages to take in wood, which the natives cut and placed ready on the river's
bank, the price (in calico) being a fixed and understood ratio. At night, as there was absolutely no space to lie down, some of us went ashore, and I shared Sharpe s little tent with himself and Burton; while the grunting and bellowing of the hippos, within a few yards of us, would have made sleep impossible to less tired men.
