Wild Life Under the Equator: Narrated for Young PeopleHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 231 pages |
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Adouma Africa ALETHE CASTANEA animal ants Ashankolo Ashinga Bakalai bashikouay beast beat beautiful began bewitched body camp canoe Cape Lopez Cayenne pepper CHAPTER cooked creek dark dead drink the mboundou elephant Equatorial eyes face fear feast feet fellow fetiches fire fish foot-prints forest friends Gambo gave goat gone Gorilla Country Hanno the Carthaginian head heard hippopotamus huge hunt iboco idol Irende Island kendo killed kind King knew leopard live looked Malaouen Mbango meat monkeys morning Mpongwe ncheri nchouna Nengue Ngozo nests never night Njambai noise Obindji orala Ovenga River paddled palm wine parrots Pendé piece plantains plantation poor Quengueza Querlaouen roar round seemed seen shouted skin slaves sleep smoked snake soon species splendid spot stood story strange suddenly terrible thing thought told took trees tremendous village wanted wild boars wives women wonder woods
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Page 6 - HOMES WITHOUT HANDS; a Description of the Habitations of Animals, classed according to their Principle of Construction.
Page 5 - Fred Markham in Russia; Or, the Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar.
Page 53 - He was not afraid of us. He stood there, and beat his breast with his huge fists till it resounded like an immense bass-drum, which is their mode of offering defiance ; meantime giving vent to roar after roar.
Page 53 - He had gone through the jungle on his all-fours ; but when he saw our party he erected himself and looked us boldly in the face. He stood about a dozen yards from us, and was a sight I think I shall never forget.
Page 52 - This was the gorilla, I knew at once, by the eager and satisfied looks of the men. They looked once more carefully at their guns, to see if by any chance the powder had fallen out of the pans ; I also examined mine, to make sure that all was right ; and then we marched on cautiously.
Page 4 - Mayhew's Wonders of Science ; or, Young Humphrey Davy (the Cornish Apothecary's Boy, who taught himself Natural Philosophy, and eventually became President of the Royal Society). The Life of a Wonderful Boy written for Boys.
Page 104 - ... hopelessly tipsy, and incapable of reasonable speech. He babbled some unintelligible jargon, and presently the palaver was declared over. While he was being questioned, about one hundred people sat around with sticks in their hands. These they beat regularly upon the ground, and sung in a monotone, " If he is a witch, let the mboundou kill him. " If he is not, let the mboundou go out.
Page 62 - In the recess there was an island like the first, having a lake, and in this there was another island full of wild men. But much the greater part of them were women, with hairy bodies, whom the interpreters called
Page 122 - ... body or hind claws. Thus they form a high, safe tubular bridge, through which the whole vast regiment marches in regular order. If disturbed, or if the arch is broken by the violence of some animal, they instantly attack the offender with the greatest animosity.
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