A Journey to Ashango-Land: And Further Penetration Into Equatorial AfricaJohn Murray, 1867 - 501 Seiten |
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Akenda Mbani altitude amongst animals ants Apingi Apono Arondo arrived Ashango Ashira Bakalai banks beads Birogou canoe Chaillie CHAP chimpanzee clan coast Commi distance dry season Equatorial Africa feet Fernand Vaz fetich forest former journey Fougamou gave goats gorilla Goumbi ground guns head heard hills Igala Igalo inhabitants interior Ishogo Ishogo villages Kamba kendo killed king Kombila Kombo leave loads looked Macondai Magouga Máyolo meridian altitude miles Mobana Mokaba Mokenga morning Mouaou Mpongwé Mpoto natives Nchiengain negroes neighbouring never Ngouyai Niembouai Niembouai Olomba night Njavi Obongos observations Ogobai Ogoulou Oguizi old chief Olenda Otando Ovigui palaver palm wine passed plantains plantation porters Potamogale prairie present Quengueza rain Rembo river seen Serval shouted side skulls slaves soon species stream told took travelled trees tribes village whilst women woods Yengué
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Seite 224 - ANTS. The height of the structure I examined was four feet and a half, and the diameter, at the broadest part, two feet and a half ; after breaking one sinuosity, I found the cells to be about one inch and a half in length, and about half an inch in height, each cell corresponding with the others by corridors or round tunnels varying from half an inch to one inch in length, and about a quarter of an inch in diameter. In demolishing the sides, I found that the thickness of the wall was only one inch...
Seite 58 - On the third day, having sailed from thence, passing the streams of fire, we came to a bay called the Horn of the South. In the recess 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 gorillas.
Seite 316 - ... another. The abodes were very filthy ; and whilst my Commi men and myself were endeavouring to examine them, we were covered with swarms of fleas and obliged to beat a retreat. The village had been abandoned by its inhabitants, no doubt on account of their huts being so much infested with these insects. Leaving the abandoned huts, we continued our way through the forest; and presently, within a distance of a quarter of a mile, we came on another village, composed, like the last, of about a dozen...
Seite 49 - They were all busily engaged in tearing down the larger trees. One of the females had a young one following her. I had an excellent opportunity of watching the movements of the impish-looking band. The shaggy hides, the protuberant abdomens, the hideous features of these strange creatures, whose forms so nearly resemble man, made up a picture like a vision in some morbid dream. In destroying a tree they first grasped the base of the stem with one of their feet, and then with their powerful arms pulled...
Seite 49 - They then set upon the juicy heart of the tree at the basis of the leaves, and devoured it with great voracity. While eating they made a kind of clucking noise expressive of contentment. Many trees they destroyed apparently out of pure mischief. Now and then they stood still and looked around. Once or twice they seemed on the point of starting off in alarm, but recovered themselves and continued their work.
Seite 134 - had now become a gloomy valley of the dead ; each village was a charnel house — wherever I walked the most heartrending sights met my view. The poor victims of the loathsome disease in all its worst stages lay about in sheds and huts ; there were hideous sores filled with maggots, and swarms of carrion flies buzzed about the living but putrid carcases. The stench in the neighbourhood of the huts was insupportable. Some of the sick were raving and others, emaciated, with sunken eyes, vjctims of...
Seite 43 - American ant-eaters are clothed with hair, like ordinary mammalian animals, the pangolins have an armour of large scales, implanted in the skin of the upper surface of the body from the head to the tip of the tail, and imbricated or overlapping, like the slates on the roof of a house.
Seite 284 - Ishogo women to possess a good well-trained and well-greased tower of hair of the kind that I describe. Some women are far better dressers of hair than others, and are much sought for — the fixing and cleaning of the hair requiring a long day's work. The woman who desires to have her hair dressed must either pay the hair-dresser or must promise to perform the same kind office to her neighbour in return.
Seite 105 - A rocky island in the middle of the river breaks the rush of the water into two unequal parts, and the height of the cataract is only about fifteen feet. Mr. Du Chaillu says : — ' The sight was wild, grand, and beautiful ; but it did not quite impress me with the awe that the rapids below inspired. We see here the river Ngouyai after flowing through the Apingi Valley in the interior, and receiving the waters of the Ovigui and many other streams, bursting through the barrier of the hilly range which...