[The Ivory Trail by Talbot Mundy]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ivory Trail CHAPTER One 54/73
Traveled north until I reached Ruanda--went on until I could see the Fire Mountains in the distance, and the country all smothered in lava.
Reached a cannibal country, where the devils had eaten all the surrounding tribes until they had to take to vegetarianism at last." -- --------------- * Melikani, the unbleached calico made in America that is the most useful trade goods from sea to sea of Central Africa. ** Kanga, cotton piece goods. -- --------------- "But did you find the ivory ?" Fred insisted. "No, or by Jiminy, I wouldn't be here! If I'd found it I'd have settled down with a wife in Greece long ago.
I'd be keeping an inn, and growing wine, and living like a gentleman! But I found out enough to know there's a system that goes with the ivory Tippoo Tib buried. If you found one lot, that would lead you to the next, and so on.
I got a suspicion where one lot is, although I couldn't prove it.
And I made up my mind that the German government knows darned well where a lot of it is!" "Then why don't the Germans dig it up ?" demanded Fred. "Aha!" laughed Coutlass.
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