Camp and Tramp in African Wilds: A Record of Adventures, Impressions, and Experiences During Many Years Spent Among the Savage Tribes Round Lake Tanganyika and in Central Africa, with a Description of Native Life, Character, and Customs |
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Africa animal Arabs arrived asked attacked Babunda Bahuana Bakwasamba Bakwese bank Bapindi Bayaka Bayanzi began Beleke boat Bobo Bumba bush called camp cannibalism carriers chief child cloth Congo death Deke elephant enemies European father feet fetishes fire fish forest fowl Gika give goats gorilla grass hair hand heard hunters hunting husband Imbangala inhabitants journey Kalala Kalonda Kasai Kaseko Katanga Kerikeri Kikwit killed Kinshasa Kioko Kolokoto Kongo Kwilu Lake Tanganyika later leopard Leopoldville lion Luano Lubefu Luchima Lusambo Manyema Masolo Meyey milonga natives negro neighbouring never night once ornament paddlers palaver peace Pweto replied river round slave soon Southern Bambala SQUIRREL'S CLEARING Stanleyville steamer story Sudila Tanganyika tell told took traveller trees tribes village WAGENYA wanted warriors wife wives woman women Woto Yongo Zappo
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Page 249 - I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right, then, I'll go to hell"— and tore it up.
Page 263 - Yes, he is up stairs, I saw him go up just now. Go and tell him that I have a letter for him. 25. I am very glad to see you. How do you do ? I am perfectly well, thank God. How are your children? I thank you, they are all very well, except my eldest son. What is the matter with him? — He has a fever.
Page 75 - ... accept my invitation. We went up to the house and found that the cakes and other hors d'oeuvres were ready. Before we began our meal a man of the village came up to me, and begged me to reassure the foreigners he and his fellow-villagers really had no bad intentions, and it was quite safe to lay aside the paraphernalia of war. Fortunately my visitor did not understand. My refreshments were greatly appreciated by my guests, especially as they had, according to their own account, just quitted a...
Page 76 - ... on the inhabitants, and how he had flogged a woman who had displeased his servant. Later still I learned that he had gone, on the pretence of scientific research into an English colony, and had there robbed the natives of their most sacred relics. Well, perhaps it was better for him and for me that I did not know then his real character; there might have been trouble in store for both of us. What is to be deplored most with people of this kind is that they bring undeserved discredit on their...
Page 276 - ... for ever. He had not left the village for more than a few days when his brother had cause to regret his departure, for there was no sun, and Moelo could not see, when he took a wife, if she were pretty or not ; nor, if he plucked a fruit, if it were ripe or unripe ; nor, if a man approached him, if he were friend or foe. So he called three of his men, and bade them go forth and find Woto and request him to give some remedy for the darkness. " In order that your mission may be successful...
Page 86 - Although the traveller may at first be prejudiced against these people because of their well-known cannibalistic propensities, he will soon find out that they are very pleasant on the whole. When kindly treated they are the most devoted servants one can imagine" (Torday cited in Mack 1991: 63).
Page 173 - Some writers translate this as 'shame'. Thus Torday and Joyce report that amongst the Huana a man may never enter the house of his parentsin-law, and if he meets them on a road he must turn aside into the bush to avoid them. 'Repeated inquiries as to the reason of this avoidance on the part of a man of his parents-in-law elicited the invariable reply "that he was ashamed" ; to a further inquiry of what he was ashamed, the answer would be "of marrying their daughter".
Page 174 - Burial. — A dead man is buried with his face to the west in a sitting position, and with him his clothes and weapons, with some food and palm wine; if he was a maker of palm wine his implements are buried with him. Women are buried in the same manner, but their pots are buried with them, whereas in the case of a man they are broken on the grave. A man killed by lightning is buried full length on his back. Men in mourning paint the forehead black, women the whole face. "Explanation. — There are...
Page 76 - I accepted his suggestions with gratitude and humility. It was only after a flow of words, uninterrupted for ten minutes, that the captain remarked that I had spent more years in the Congo than my nestor had spent months, and that possibly I already had some knowledge of the questions on which he was laying down the law. Years later I read a book, published by the very same traveller, in which he described how he had fired a village, how he had tried a new rifle on the inhabitants, and how he had...