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| I leave New York for Africa—Narrow quarters on the schooner—Our cargo—Out of sight of land—The sea and all that therein is—A storm brewing | 1 |
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| CHAPTER II |
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| A storm at sea—A tempest-tossed little bird—Fine weather again—Fight between a swordfish and a whale | 10 |
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| CHAPTER III |
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| The Sargasso Sea—The northeast trade-winds—Dolphins and bonitas—New stars come into view | 17 |
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| CHAPTER IV |
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| The “Doldrums”—Fierce heat of the sun—Strong local currents—The southwest trade-winds—Huge sharks all around us | 22 |
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| CHAPTER V |
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| Crossing the equator—The southeast trade-winds—The equatorial current—The Gulf Stream—Struck by a tornado—Land in sight—Africa at last—The great forest | 28 |
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| CHAPTER VI |
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| Wandering through the forest and learning the country—I reach King Mombo’s village—Received by the king—His fear of witchcraft—Visits my dwelling and receives presents from me | 35 |
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| CHAPTER VII |
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| Superstitions of King Mombo—Visits to the house of his idols and his ancestors—A strange meal followed by a strange dance | 41 |
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| CHAPTER VIII |
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| Bad luck of Mombo’s village—Ascribed to witchcraft—Arrival of a great medicine-man—His incantations—The accused sold as slaves | 50 |
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| CHAPTER IX |
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| King Mombo gives me the stick “Omemba”—I leave the village on a hunting trip—Parting injunctions—A herd of hippopotami | 55 |
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| CHAPTER X |
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| Sounds of human voices—I encounter Regundo and his wife, slaves of King Mombo—Other slaves—Hunters and warriors of Mombo | 63 |
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| CHAPTER XI |
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| Wonder of the natives at my Waterbury clock, magnet, matches, and music-box—Character of Mombo’s plantation | 72 |
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| CHAPTER XII |
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| King Mombo’s plantation—Work of the slaves in clearing and cultivating the forest—Strange village of the slaves—Houses of the spirits—Regundo’s account of witchcraft and its punishment—Ovengua | 79 |
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| CHAPTER XIII |
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| The native dogs—How they hunt their own game when they are not fed—Their ways of attack—Their usefulness to their masters in war-time—Oshoria’s story | 87 |
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| CHAPTER XIV |
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| A great hunting-feast—“Roondah”—Different viands of the menu—Speeches at the banquet—Music and dancing—A weird forest scene in the torchlight | 95 |
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| CHAPTER XV |
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| A talk with King Mombo’s slaves—Why slaves do not run away—Various features of the traffic—The cannibals of the interior—My daily occupations | 104 |
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| CHAPTER XVI |
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| The animals of the forest—Five kinds of apes—The ngina or gorilla—His great strength and fierceness—How he attacks man and other animals—Oshoria’s account of him | 116 |
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| CHAPTER XVII |
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| The other apes of the great forest—Oshoria tells about the nshiego mbouvÉs—Capture of a baby “man of the woods”—His mother killed—Correspondence of the different apes with the various human races | 124 |
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| CHAPTER XVIII |
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| Angooka, the medicine-man—His strange appearance—Eavesdropping—I overhear the conversation of the slaves—They talk among themselves about the Oguizi | 131 |
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| CHAPTER XIX |
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| News brought that gorillas are near by in the forest—The dogs got ready for the hunt—Their names—A grand hunting council—Regundo’s wise advice—Cautions to be observed | |
