Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons |
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Accra affair African Ajumba bank Bantu Batanga beach beautiful boat boys Bubi Buea bush Calabar Cameroon canoe captain caudal charms chief cloth comes Congo Français Congo Free Corisco Corisco Bay crew district Éclaireur Egbo English exceedingly Fans feet Fernando Fernando Po fetish fever fire fish forest Franceville French friends Gaboon give Gold Coast grass head huts Igalwa island Jacot ju-ju Kangwe killed Krumen lady Lagos land leaves Lembarene Libreville live look M'bo M'pongwe mainland mangrove miles mission missionary mountain Mové native never Ngunie night Njole Obanjo Ogowé Opobo paddle palaver path plantain plantation regarding region Rembwé Rio del Rey river rock round season side Sierra del Cristal Sierra Leone slaves soon sort specimens spirit steamer swamp Talagouga things town trade trees tribes usually village West Africa West Coast
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Page 577 - The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside...
Page 518 - ... 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 271 - They were a human hand, three big toes, four eyes, two ears, and other portions of the human frame. The hand was fresh, the others only so so, and shrivelled.
Page xv - 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 329 - 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 272 - T fellow friendly tribesfolk, yet they like to keep a little some( thing belonging to them as a memento. This touching trait in their character I learnt from Wiki ; and, though it's to their credit, under the circumstances, still it's an unpleasant practice when they hang the remains in the bedroom you occupy, particularly if the bereavement in your host's family has been recent.
Page 262 - 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 593 - Not a blade of grass, not a thread of moss, breaks the gloom of the Plutonic pit, which is as black as Erebus except where the fire has painted it red and yellow.
Page 266 - 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 440 - 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