Chapter I: Front Matter

and Parrots.--A deserted Village.--Strange Scene before an
Idol.--Bringing in the Wounded.--An Invocation. 37

CHAPTER VI. A white Gorilla.--Meeting two Gorillas.--The Female
runs away.--The Man Gorilla shows fight.--He is killed.--His
immense Hands and Feet.--Strange Story of a Leopard and a
Turtle. 48

CHAPTER VII. Return to the Ovenga River.--The Monkeys and their
Friends the Birds.--They live together.--Watch by Moonlight for
Game.--Kill an Oshengui. 55

CHAPTER VIII. We are in a Canoe.--Outfit for Hunting.--See a
beautiful Antelope.--Kill it.--It is a new Species.--River and
forest Swallows. 62

CHAPTER IX. We hear the Cry of a young Gorilla.--Start to
capture him.--Fight with "his Father."--We kill him.--Kill the
Mother.--Capture of the Baby.--Strange Camp Scene. 70

CHAPTER X. Jack will have his own way.--He seizes my
Leg.--He tears my Pantaloons.--He growls at me.--He refuses
cooked Food.--Jack makes his Bed.--Jack sleeps with one Eye
open.--Jack is intractable. 81

CHAPTER XI. Start after Land-crabs.--Village of the
Crabs.--Each Crab knows his House.--Great flight of
Crabs.--They bite hard.--Feast on the Slain.--A herd
of Hippopotami. 87

CHAPTER XII. Strange Spiders.--The House-spider.--How they
capture their Prey.--How they Fight.--Fight between a Wasp
and a Spider.--The Spider has its Legs cut off, and is carried
away.--Burrow Spider watching for its Prey. 94

CHAPTER XIII. We continue our Wanderings.--Joined by Etia.--We
starve.--Gambo and Etia go in search of Berries.--A herd of
Elephants.--The rogue Elephant charges me.--He is killed.--He
tumbles down near me.--Story of Redjioua. 106

CHAPTER XIV. A formidable Bird.--The People are afraid of
it.--A Baby carried off by the Guanionien.--A Monkey also
seized.--I discover a Guanionien Nest.--I watch for the Eagles. 119

CHAPTER XV. The Cascade of Niama-Biembai.--A native
Camp.--Starting for the Hunt.--A Man attacked by a
Gorilla.--His Gun broken.--The Man dies.--His Burial. 127

CHAPTER XVI. Funeral of the Gorilla's Victim.--A Man's Head
for the Alumbi.--The Snake and the Guinea-fowl.--Snake
killed.--Visit to the House of the Alumbi.--Determine to
visit the Sea-coast. 137

CHAPTER XVII. At Washington once more.--Delights of the
Sea-shore.--I have been made a Makaga.--Friends object to
my Return into the Jungle.--Quengueza taken Sick.--Gives a
Letter to his Nephew.--Taking leave. 142

CHAPTER XVIII. Departure.--Arrival at Goumbi.--The People
ask for the King.--A Death-panic in Goumbi.--A Doctor sent
for.--Death to the Aniembas.--Three Women accused.--They are
tried and killed. 148

CHAPTER XIX. Quengueza orders Ilogo to be consulted about
his Illness.--What the People think of Ilogo.--A nocturnal
Seance.--Song to Ilogo.--A female Medium.--What Ilogo said. 162

CHAPTER XX. Departure from Goumbi.--Querlaouen's Village.--Find
it deserted.--Querlaouen dead.--He has been killed by an
Elephant.--Arrive at Obindji's Town.--Meeting with Querlaouen's
Widow.--Neither Malaouen nor Gambo at home. 167

CHAPTER XXI. Leave for Ashira Land.--In a Swamp.--Cross the
Mountains.--A Leopard after us.--Reach the Ashira Country. 175

CHAPTER XXII. Great Mountains.--Ashira Land is beautiful.--The
People are afraid.--Reach Akoonga's Village.--King Olenda
sends Messengers and Presents.--I reach Olenda's Village. 181

CHAPTER XXIII. King Olenda comes to receive me.--He is very
old.--Never saw a Man so old before.--He beats his Kendo.--He
salutes me with his Kombo.--Kings alone can wear the Kendo. 185

CHAPTER XXIV. They all come to see me.--They say I have an
Evil Eye.--Ashira Villages.--Olenda gives a great Ball in my
Honor.--Beer-houses.--Goats coming out of a Mountain alive. 190

CHAPTER XXV. Ascension of the Ofoubou-Orere and Andele
Mountains.--The Ashiras bleed their Hands.--Story of a
Fight between a Gorilla and a Leopard.--The Gorilla and
the Elephant.--Wild Boars. 197

CHAPTER XXVI. Propose to start for Haunted Mountains.--Olenda
says it can not be done.--At last I leave Olenda Village.--A
Tornado.--We are Lost.--We fight a Gorilla.--We kill a
Leopard.--Return to Olenda. 203

CHAPTER XXVII. Departure for the Apingi Country.--The Ovigui
River.--Dangerous Bridge to Cross.--How the Bridge was
built.--Glad to escape Drowning.--On the Way.--Reach the
Oloumy. 217

CHAPTER XXVIII. A Gorilla.--How he attacked me.--I kill
him.--Minsho tells a Story of two Gorillas fighting.--We
meet King Remandji.--I fall into an Elephant-pit.--Reach
Apingi Land. 226

CHAPTER XXIX. First Day in Apingi Land.--I fire a Gun.--The
Natives are Frightened.--I give the King a Waistcoat.--He
wears it.--The Sapadi People.--The Music-box.--I must make
a Mountain of Beads. 238

CHAPTER XXX. A large Fleet of Canoes.--We ascend the
River.--The King paddles my Canoe.--Agobi's Village.--We
upset.--The King is furious.--Okabi, the Charmer.--I read
the Bible.--The People are afraid. 246