Chapter I: Front Matter

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In African Forest
and Jungle

By

Paul Du Chaillu

_Author of_

"King Mombo," "The World of the Great Forest," "The Viking Age,"
"The Land of the Long Night," "Ivar the Viking," "The Land of the
Midnight Sun," "Explorations in Equatorial Africa," "Stories
of the Gorilla Country," "Wild Life under the Equator,"
"Lost in the Jungle," "My Apingi Kingdom,"
"The Country of the Dwarfs," etc., etc.

_Illustrated by Victor Perard_

New York,
Charles Scribner's Sons
1903

_Copyright, 1903_

BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

_Published September, 1903_

UNIVERSITY PRESS, JOHN WILSON

AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.

Contents

CHAPTER I

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A canoe-voyage to the country of Rotembo the Chief--A toilet of
ceremony--Rotembo's grotesque costume--A formal
reception--Speeches of Rotembo and myself--A dance in my
honor--My presents to the chief--We become good friends 1

CHAPTER II

I propose to go into the forest to hunt--Rotembo promises me
three gifts--Rogala, the famous hunter, the first of
them--Description of Rogala--Andekko, the dog, the second
gift--Ndova, the monkey, the third--How Ndova was captured and
reared--I give Rotembo some of my hair 8

CHAPTER III

Preparations for departure--Off for forest and jungle--A herd of
elephants--We camp for the night--Ndova calls monkeys of his
tribe within range--We kill two of them--Feeding on roast
monkey--A deserted house--A story of witchcraft 21

CHAPTER IV

The home of Rogala--His hunting-trophies--A weird spot--Aspect
of the surrounding forest--Shinshooko and Alapai--Leopards in
the neighborhood 30

CHAPTER V

We build a leopard trap--A night on the watch--The beast appears
at last--Caught in the trap and soon despatched--Her mate killed
the following night--Excitement of Andekko and Ndova 36

CHAPTER VI

My hunters and I become great friends--Andekko and Ndova grow
fond of me--We take Ndova into the forest--He calls monkeys to
us again--Andekko's prowess as a hunter--A female gorilla and
her baby--We kill the mamma and Andekko kills the baby 41

CHAPTER VII

Fight between monkey tribes, nkagos and mondis--My gun puts both
sides to flight--A visit from the bashikouay ants--Everything
flies before them--We drive them off with firebrands and boiling
water 49

CHAPTER VIII

Rogala's wife's parrot--I use it as a decoy--Parrots prove tough
eating--The ngozos grow wary--Shinshooko discovers elephants in
the neighborhood--We go after them and kill two 54

CHAPTER IX

We build a fortified camp in the depths of the forest--Structure
of the camp--Laying in stores of provisions--Koola nuts--Source
of my influence over the natives 62

CHAPTER X

I take a swim in a crystal pool--Driven out by a huge snake--I
kill the snake--Camp-fire talk--How to hunt--Importance of
silence and noiseless movements 68

CHAPTER XI

Another excursion--Footprints of gorillas (nginas)--Listening to
the monsters' roaring--Two of them calling to each other--They
gradually draw near to each other and to us--They meet and we
sleep in the forest--Sudden appearance of the male
ngina--Killing of the ngina and his mate 72

CHAPTER XII

Ndova as a test of poisonous fruits and berries--He discovers a
beehive--A feast of honey--Andekko's usefulness in
hunting--Koola nuts--We kill two wild boars--Capture of a baby
"man of the woods" 80

CHAPTER XIII

Ndova's thoughtfulness--His winning and sportive ways--He feels
lonely and calls for other monkeys to come to him--A troop of
eleven appear--I frighten them away 91

CHAPTER XIV

Uneasiness of Rogala--He fears the new moon may see and bewitch
him--He builds a small house and hides in it--He has an attack
of fever, which he ascribes to witchcraft 96

CHAPTER XV

Rogala leaves the camp--Non-appearance of Shinshooko and
Alapai--What happened to Rogala on his journey--He returns after
four days with a powerful mondah which he buries before the camp 103

CHAPTER XVI

We discover a pair of nshiego-nkengos--Description of
them--Capture of a young one--He makes friends with Ndova and
Andekko--His speedy death 112

CHAPTER XVII

My reckoning lost--Rogala and I go to an island where I can see
the heavens--We reach it by a raft and build a house--Turtle's
eggs in profusion 119

CHAPTER XVIII

Appearance of the southern heavens at night--Homesickness--I
take several observations--Astonishment of Rogala--Find that I
am ninety miles south of the equator 125

CHAPTER XIX

We cross the river and hide our axes--Ndova's fright at a
python--Andekko finds a leopard's lair--We capture two leopard
cubs--A visit from savages--They are frightened by my Waterbury
clock 131

CHAPTER XX

Leave the island for our camp--Monkeys among the trees--Find
everything untouched--I get lost following nginas--Am lucky
enough to find koola nuts--Camp under the koola tree--Another
night in the forest 139

CHAPTER XXI

Plantain peelings to eat--Human footprints lead me to a
village--The villagers evidently warlike--Admitted within the
gate--Awe of the people at sight of the Oguizi 145

CHAPTER XXII

Alarm of my hunters at my absence--Rogala sets out to search for
me--His superstitious terrors--Consults his ogana, or
idol--Finds my traces at last and follows me to the village 150

CHAPTER XXIII

Witchcraft proceedings of the Bakalais--Two of the class
"bewitched"--A negro albino--The idol Makambo--Her dread
appearance--Return to camp--Monkeys overrun the camp--I drive
them off--Escape of Ndova--His unexpected return 154

CHAPTER XXIV

We come to the end of our provisions--Antelope skin boiled
furnishes us a repast--Ndova decoys monkeys and we soon get food
enough--Alapai finds fruits and nuts also 160

CHAPTER XXV

I find strange footprints on the banks of a rivulet--Rogala and
I set off in pursuit--We find a man under a koola tree--Surprise
and capture him--Terror of our captive--We take him to camp and
discover he is a cannibal 164

CHAPTER XXVI

Ndova falls sick--Stung by a scorpion or bitten by a
centipede--Refuses to eat--Grows weaker in spite of all our care
and nursing--One morning I find him dead--We make a coffin for
him and bury him in the forest 173

CHAPTER XXVII

I go hunting in the forest with Andekko--Disappearance of the
dog--Sounds of a fierce conflict--I find Andekko fighting with a
mandrill--He kills his enemy, but dies of his wounds--Buried in
the forest 178

CHAPTER XXVIII

Our provisions fail--Attacked again by bashikouays--Release of
Akenda-Mbani from his fetters--He proves a good
trapper--"Gouamba"--My waking visions--Another hunting
expedition--We kill two monkeys, then starve again 181