Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, the Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus and Other Animals |
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... Huge Serpents . - Enormous Gorilla killed . - Curious Superstition about the Gorilla and a pregnant Woman . - Animals peculiar to this Region . - Generosity of the Blacks . -The Superstition of Roondah . - Return ....... .Page 321 ...
... Huge Serpents . - Enormous Gorilla killed . - Curious Superstition about the Gorilla and a pregnant Woman . - Animals peculiar to this Region . - Generosity of the Blacks . -The Superstition of Roondah . - Return ....... .Page 321 ...
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... huge tracks the rushing of a herd effecting quite a clearing in the woods , though every thing grows up again with marvelous ra- pidity . I thought to come to a town . My astonishment was great when I found , instead of the usual ...
... huge tracks the rushing of a herd effecting quite a clearing in the woods , though every thing grows up again with marvelous ra- pidity . I thought to come to a town . My astonishment was great when I found , instead of the usual ...
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... huge granite boulders which lie about here as though the Titans had been play- ing at skittles in this country ; and against these the angry waters dashed as though they would carry all before them , and , breaking up , threw the milky ...
... huge granite boulders which lie about here as though the Titans had been play- ing at skittles in this country ; and against these the angry waters dashed as though they would carry all before them , and , breaking up , threw the milky ...
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... huge boulders of granite . Alongside of this granite block lay an immense dead tree , and about this we saw many evidences of the very recent presence of the gorillas . Our approach was very cautious . We were divided into two parties ...
... huge boulders of granite . Alongside of this granite block lay an immense dead tree , and about this we saw many evidences of the very recent presence of the gorillas . Our approach was very cautious . We were divided into two parties ...
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... huge country knife , and in their hands were spears and the great shield of elephant- hide , and about the necks and bodies of all were hung a variety of fetiches and greegrees , which rattled as they walked . The Fan shield is made of ...
... huge country knife , and in their hands were spears and the great shield of elephant- hide , and about the necks and bodies of all were hung a variety of fetiches and greegrees , which rattled as they walked . The Fan shield is made of ...
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