Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and CameroonsMacmillian and Company, limited, 1897 - 743 pages |
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Accra affair African Ajumba bank Bantu Batanga beach beautiful boat boys Bubi Buea bush Calabar called Cameroon canoe captain charms chief cloth comes Congo Français Corisco Corisco Bay crew district Éclaireur Egbo English factory Fans feet Fernando Fernando Po fetish fever fire fish forest Franceville French friends Fula Gaboon give Gold Coast grass head Igalwa island Jacot ju-ju Kabinda Kangwe killed Krumen lady Lagos leaves Lembarene Libreville live look M'bo M'pongwe mangrove miles mission missionary mountain native never Ngunie night Njole Obanjo Ogowé Opobo paddle palaver path plantain plantation regarding region Rembwé Rio del Rey river rock round sand sandbanks season side Sierra del Cristal Sierra Leone slaves soon sort specimens spirit swamp Talagouga things told town trade trees tribes usually village West Africa West Coast
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Page 579 - The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside...
Page 520 - ... and fear not. Weep, All ye that trust not in his truth, and keep Vain memory's vision of a vanished head As all that lives of all that once was he Save that which lightens from his word : but we, Who, seeing the sunset-coloured waters roll, Yet know the sun subdued not of the sea, Nor weep nor doubt that still the spirit is whole, And life and death but shadows of the soul.
Page 1 - It was in 1893 that, for the first time in my life, I found myself in possession of five or six months which were not heavily forestalled, and feeling like a boy with a new half-crown, I lay about in my mind, as Mr. Bunyan would say, as to what to do with them. "Go and learn your tropics,
Page 674 - We must necessarily suppose that the development of the negro and white proceeds on different lines. While with the latter the volume of the brain grows with the expansion of the brainpan, in the former the growth of the brain is on the contrary arrested by the premature closing of the cranial sutures and lateral pressure of the frontal bone.
Page 264 - A certain sort of friendship soon arose between the Fans and me. We each recognised that we belonged to that same section of the human race with whom it is better to drink than to fight. We knew we would each have killed the other, if sufficient inducement were offered, and so we took a certain amount of care that the inducement should not arise.
Page 595 - The total diameter of the two, which are separated by a rough partition of lava, 1,000 feet. . . . Not a blade of grass, not a thread of moss, breaks the gloom of this Plutonic pit, which is as black as Erebus, except where the fire has painted it red or yellow.
Page 268 - I have seen at close quarters specimens of the most important big game of Central Africa, and, with the exception of snakes, I have run away from all of them...
Page 442 - They regard their god as the creator of man, plants, animals, and the earth, and they hold that having made them, he takes no further interest in the affair. But not so the crowd of spirits with which the universe is peopled, they take only too much interest and the Bantu wishes they would not and is perpetually saying so in his prayers, a large percentage whereof amounts to
Page 332 - VILLAGE. deceased to his next door neighbour in return ; but he does not buy slaves and fatten them up for his table as some of the Middle Congo tribes I know of do. He has no slaves, no prisoners of war, no cemeteries, so you must draw your own conclusions.
Page 691 - There is another class who have been out for twelve months at a time, and have not had a touch of fever ; these you want the fingers of your two hands to count, but no more. By far the largest class is the third, which is made up of those who have...