Stories of the gorilla country : Narrated for young people / By Paul Du Chaillu.

  • Paul du Chaillu
Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Stories of the gorilla country : Narrated for young people / By Paul Du Chaillu. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    *i||ili]iJlifs*'i|iK'1fhWiiti I ■'■■l-r-. .:''■ 'n,.i- ilV'H 'l'.^Y,.'v \'-& MY BEOEFTION BY THE KING. CHAPTER II. ARRIVAL ON THE COAST. A KING AND HIS PALACE. DANC- ING AND IDOL-WOKSHIP. About the year 1850 a three-masted vessel took me to a wild country on the West Coast of Africa, near the equator. It was a very wild country indeed. As we came in sight of the land, which was covered with forest, canoes began to start from the shore toward us; and, as we neared the land, we could see the people crowding down on the beach to look at the strange sight of a vessel. The canoes approached the vessel in great numbers. Some of them were so small that they looked like mere nutshells. Indeed, some of the men paddled with their feet; and one man carried his canoe ashore on his shoulder.