IN WILD AFRICA.
CHAPTER I.
DEPARTURE FOR ALGIERS — ENTERING THE DESERT.
W OULD you like to go to Africa ?” “Certainly I would, sir,” was the reply.
«Think over it before you decide,” said the other. «‘There’s a great deal of hardship in an African jour- ney such as I intend to make, and you might not enjoy it. I’m going into wild Africa, away from the beaten track of travelers, and where the comforts of civilization cannot be obtained.”
«J should like it all the more for that,” was the response. «<The civilized places would be interesting, of course, but they would not have the novelty and excitement of the savage regions of that wonderful continent. No matter where you are going, sir, it would give me great pleasure to be with you, and, if my parents consent, I’m ready to start at any time you name.”
«They have consented already and you may consider it settled. Now go and see if your Cousin Harry would like to be with us, and bring him here with his answer at this time to-morrow.”
The speakers in the foregoing dialogue were Mr. Thomas Whitney, of New York, and his nephew,
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