 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1862 - 642 pages
...sweetness it contained, the famished travellers perceived some tracks and marks which instantly threw them all into the greatest excitement. Here and there the cane was beaten down, torn up by the roots, and was lying about in fragments which had evidently been masticated. These were tracks and deeds of the... | |
 | Victor Meunier - Hunting - 1868 - 390 pages
...stalks, but his men drew his attention to a circumstance which gave quite a new turn to his ideas. Here and there the cane was beaten down, torn up by...about in fragments, which had evidently been chewed. The Mbondemos looked at each other in silence, and muttered, " Njena ! " that is to say, " Gorilla."... | |
 | Paul Belloni Du Chaillu - Africa, West - 1868 - 334 pages
...I made haste to pluck some of this, and chew it for the little sweetness it had. While thus engaged my men perceived what instantly threw us all into...excitement. " Here and there the cane was beaten down or torn up by the roots, and lying about were fragments which had evidently been chewed. There were... | |
 | Paul Belloni Du Chaillu - Africa, West - 1869 - 316 pages
...I made haste to pluck some of this, and chew it for the little sweetness it had. While thus engaged my men perceived what instantly threw us all into...excitement. Here and there the cane was beaten down or torn up by the roots, and lying about were fragments which had evidently been chewed. There were... | |
 | Paul Belloni Du Chaillu - Africa, Central - 1890 - 510 pages
...the very spot where the houses had formerly stood, and I made haste to pluck some of this and chew it for the little sweetness it had. But, as we were...there the cane was beaten down, torn up by the roots, ami lying about in fragments which had evidently been chewed. I knew that these were fresh tracks of... | |
 | Paul Belloni Du Chaillu - Africa, Central - 1890 - 506 pages
...the very spot where the houses had formerly stood, and I made haste to pluck some of this and chew it for the little sweetness it had. But, as we were...greatest excitement. Here and there the cane was beaten flown, torn up by the roots, ami lying about in fragments which had evidently been chewed. I knew that... | |
 | Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page - American literature - 1922 - 824 pages
...the very spot where the houses had formerly stood, and I made haste to pluck some of this and chew it for the little sweetness it had. But, as we were...about in fragments which had evidently been chewed. " 1 knew that these were fresh tracks of the gorilla, and joy filled my heart. My men looked at each... | |
 | 1861 - 712 pages
...the very spot where the houses had formerly stood, and I made haste to pluck some of this and chew it for the little sweetness it had ; but, as we were...the greatest excitement. Here and there the cane was HUNTING THE GORILLA. beaten down, torn up by the roots, and lying about in fragments, which had evidently... | |
 | Carl Ethan Akeley - Africa, East - 1923 - 424 pages
...the very spot where the houses had formerly stood, and I made haste to pluck some of this and chew it for the little sweetness it had. But, as we were...men looked at each other in silence, and muttered Nguy/a, which is as much as to say in Mpongwe, Ngina, or, as we say, gorilla. We followed these traces,... | |
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Christian country, we began to look about the ruins of the village near which we sat. A degenerate kind of sugar-cane was growing on the very spot where the houses had formerly stood, and I made haste to pluck some of this and chew it for the little sweetness... 