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LOST IN THE JUNGLE.
NARRATED FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
By PAUL DU CHAILLU,
AUTHOR OF
"DISCOVERIES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA," "WILD LIFE UNDER THE EQUATOR,"
"JOURNEY TO ASHANGO LAND," "STORIES OF THE GORILLA COUNTRY," &c.
_WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS._
_NEW YORK:_
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1875.
[Illustration: SHOOTING A LEOPARD. [p. 213.]
By PAUL DU CHAILLU.
THE COUNTRY OF THE DWARFS. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 75.
MY APINGI KINGDOM. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 75.
LOST IN THE JUNGLE. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 75.
WILD LIFE UNDER THE EQUATOR. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 75.
STORIES OF THE GORILLA COUNTRY. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 75.
EXPLORATIONS AND ADVENTURES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA. Illustrated. New
Edition. 8vo, Cloth, $5 00.
A JOURNEY TO ASHANGO LAND, and Further Penetration into Equatorial
Africa. New Edition. Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, $5 00.
_Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York._
_Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on
receipt of the price._
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for
the Southern District of New York.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. Paul's Letter to his Young Friends, in which he
prepares them for being "Lost in the Jungle." 11
CHAPTER II. A queer Canoe.--On the Rembo.--We reach the
Niembouai.--A deserted Village.--Gazelle attacked by a
Snake.--Etia wounded by a Gorilla. 14
CHAPTER III. Harpooning a Manga.--A great Prize.--Our Canoe
capsized.--Description of the Manga.--Return to Camp. 23
CHAPTER IV. We go into the Forest.--Hunt for Ebony-trees.--The
Fish-eagles.--Capture of a young Eagle.--Impending Fight with
them.--Fearful roars of Gorillas.--Gorillas breaking down Trees. 28
CHAPTER V. Lost.--Querlaouen says we are Bewitched.--Monkeys
and Parrots.--A deserted Village.--Strange Scene before an
Idol.--Bringing in the Wounded.--An Invocation. 37
CHAPTER VI. A white Gorilla.--Meeting two Gorillas.--The Female
runs away.--The Man Gorilla shows fight.--He is killed.--His
immense Hands and Feet.--Strange Story of a Leopard and a
Turtle. 48
CHAPTER VII. Return to the Ovenga River.--The Monkeys and their
Friends the Birds.--They live together.--Watch by Moonlight for
Game.--Kill an Oshengui. 55
CHAPTER VIII. We are in a Canoe.--Outfit for Hunting.--See a
beautiful Antelope.--Kill it.--It is a new Species.--River and
forest Swallows. 62
CHAPTER IX. We hear the Cry of a young Gorilla.--Start to
capture him.--Fight with "his Father."--We kill him.--Kill the
Mother.--Capture of the Baby.--Strange Camp Scene. 70
CHAPTER X. Jack will have his own way.--He seizes my
Leg.--He tears my Pantaloons.--He growls at me.--He refuses
cooked Food.--Jack makes his Bed.--Jack sleeps with one Eye
open.--Jack is intractable. 81
CHAPTER XI. Start after Land-crabs.--Village of the
Crabs.--Each Crab knows his House.--Great flight of
Crabs.--They bite hard.--Feast on the Slain.--A herd
of Hippopotami. 87
CHAPTER XII. Strange Spiders.--The House-spider.--How they
capture their Prey.--How they Fight.--Fight between a Wasp
and a Spider.--The Spider has its Legs cut off, and is carried
away.--Burrow Spider watching for its Prey. 94
CHAPTER XIII. We continue our Wanderings.--Joined by Etia.--We
starve.--Gambo and Etia go in search of Berries.--A herd of
Elephants.--The rogue Elephant charges me.--He is killed.--He
tumbles down near me.--Story of Redjioua. 106
CHAPTER XIV. A formidable Bird.--The People are afraid of
it.--A Baby carried off by the Guanionien.--A Monkey also
seized.--I discover a Guanionien Nest.--I watch for the Eagles. 119
CHAPTER XV. The Cascade of Niama-Biembai.--A native
Camp.--Starting for the Hunt.--A Man attacked by a
Gorilla.--His Gun broken.--The Man dies.--His Burial. 127
CHAPTER XVI. Funeral of the Gorilla's Victim.--A Man's Head
for the Alumbi.--The Snake and the Guinea-fowl.--Snake
killed.--Visit to the House of the Alumbi.--Determine to
visit the Sea-coast. 137
CHAPTER XVII. At Washington once more.--Delights of the
Sea-shore.--I have been made a Makaga.--Friends object to
my Return into the Jungle.--Quengueza taken Sick.--Gives a
Letter to his Nephew.--Taking leave. 142
CHAPTER XVIII. Departure.--Arrival at Goumbi.--The People
ask for the King.--A Death-panic in Goumbi.--A Doctor sent
for.--Death to the Aniembas.--Three Women accused.--They are
tried and killed. 148
CHAPTER XIX. Quengueza orders Ilogo to be consulted about
his Illness.--What the People think of Ilogo.--A nocturnal
Seance.--Song to Ilogo.--A female Medium.--What Ilogo said. 162
CHAPTER XX. Departure from Goumbi.--Querlaouen's Village.--Find
it deserted.--Querlaouen dead.--He has been killed by an
Elephant.--Arrive at Obindji's Town.--Meeting with Querlaouen's
Widow.--Neither Malaouen nor Gambo at home. 167
CHAPTER XXI. Leave for Ashira Land.--In a Swamp.--Cross the
Mountains.--A Leopard after us.--Reach the Ashira Country. 175
CHAPTER XXII. Great Mountains.--Ashira Land is beautiful.--The
People are afraid.--Reach Akoonga's Village.--King Olenda
sends Messengers and Presents.--I reach Olenda's Village. 181
CHAPTER XXIII. King Olenda comes to receive me.--He is very
old.--Never saw a Man so old before.--He beats his Kendo.--He
salutes me with his Kombo.--Kings alone can wear the Kendo. 185
CHAPTER XXIV. They all come to see me.--They say I have an
Evil Eye.--Ashira Villages.--Olenda gives a great Ball in my
Honor.--Beer-houses.--Goats coming out of a Mountain alive. 190
CHAPTER XXV. Ascension of the Ofoubou-Orere and Andele
Mountains.--The Ashiras bleed their Hands.--Story of a
Fight between a Gorilla and a Leopard.--The Gorilla and
the Elephant.--Wild Boars. 197
CHAPTER XXVI. Propose to start for Haunted Mountains.--Olenda
says it can not be done.--At last I leave Olenda Village.--A
Tornado.--We are Lost.--We fight a Gorilla.--We kill a
Leopard.--Return to Olenda. 203
CHAPTER XXVII. Departure for the Apingi Country.--The Ovigui
River.--Dangerous Bridge to Cross.--How the Bridge was
built.--Glad to escape Drowning.--On the Way.--Reach the
Oloumy. 217
CHAPTER XXVIII. A Gorilla.--How he attacked me.--I kill
him.--Minsho tells a Story of two Gorillas fighting.--We
meet King Remandji.--I fall into an Elephant-pit.--Reach
Apingi Land. 226
CHAPTER XXIX. First Day in Apingi Land.--I fire a Gun.--The
Natives are Frightened.--I give the King a Waistcoat.--He
wears it.--The Sapadi People.--The Music-box.--I must make
a Mountain of Beads. 238
CHAPTER XXX. A large Fleet of Canoes.--We ascend the
River.--The King paddles my Canoe.--Agobi's Village.--We
upset.--The King is furious.--Okabi, the Charmer.--I read
the Bible.--The People are afraid. 246
CHAPTER XXXI. A great Crowd of Strangers.--I am made a
King.--I remain in my Kingdom.--Good-by to the Young Folks. 258
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
SHOOTING A LEOPARD _Frontispiece._
THE ROYAL CANOE 15
THE MANGA 25
THE MPANO 29
FELLING EBONY-TREES 31
BRINGING IN THE WOUNDED 43
WATCHING BIRDS AND MONKEYS 57
SHOOTING THE NEW ANTELOPE 66
QUERLAOUEN AND HIS IDOL 78
CAUGHT BY JACK 82
GORILLA SLEEPING 85
CATCHING THE OGOMBONS 90
BIT BY A SPIDER 99
DEATH OF THE BULL ELEPHANT 111
GUANIONIEN CARRYING OFF A MONDI 122
GAMBO'S FRIEND KILLED BY A GORILLA 133
BIDDING GOOD-BY TO QUENGUEZA 147
"CHALLY, CHALLY, DO NOT LET ME DIE" 155
THE SONGS TO ILOGO 163
GIVING BEADS TO QUERLAOUEN'S WIFE 173
GOING TO ASHIRA LAND 177
RECEPTION OF THE KING OF THE ASHIRAS 186
THE KENDO 189
DRINKING PLANTAIN BEER 193
ATTACK ON THE WILD BOARS 201
AN ASHIRA IDOL 202
CROSSING THE OVIGUI RIVER 222
THE ELEPHANT-TRAP 233
THE MUSIC-BOX 243
OKABI AND THE LEOPARD 252
MY HOUSEKEEPER 256
LOST IN THE JUNGLE.
CHAPTER I.
PAUL'S LETTER TO HIS YOUNG FRIENDS, IN WHICH HE PREPARES THEM
FOR BEING "LOST IN THE JUNGLE."
My dear Young Folks,--In the first book which I wrote for you, we
traveled together through the Gorilla Country, and saw not only the
gigantic apes, but also the cannibal tribes which eat men.
In the second book we continued our hunting, and met leopards,
elephants, hippopotami, wild boars, great serpents, etc., etc. We were
stung and chased by the fierce Bashikouay ants, and plagued by flies.
Last spring, your friend Paul, not satisfied with writing for young
folks, took it into his head to lecture before them. When I mentioned
the subject to my acquaintances, many of them laughed at the notion of
my lecturing to you, and a few remarked, "This is another of your queer
notions." I did not see it!!! I thought I would try.
Thousands of young folks came to your friend Paul's lectures in Boston,
Brooklyn, and New York; not only did my young friends come, but a great
many old folks were also seen among them.
The intelligent, eager faces of his young hearers, their sparkling eyes,
spoke to him more eloquently than words could do, and told him that he
had done well to go into the great jungle of Equatorial Africa, and that
they liked to hear what he had done and what he had seen.
When he asked the girls and boys of New York if he should write more
books for them, the tremendous cheers and hurrahs they gave him in reply
told him that he had better go to work.
When, at the end of his third lecture, he made his appearance in the old
clothes he had worn in Africa, and said he would be happy to shake hands
with his young hearers, the rush then made assured him that they were
his friends. Oh! how your hearty hand-shaking gladdened the heart of
your friend Paul; he felt so happy as your small hands passed in and out
of his!
Before writing this new volume, I went to my good and esteemed friends,
my publishers in Franklin Square, and asked them what they thought of a
new book for Young Folks.
"Certainly," they said; "by all means, Friend Paul. Write a new book,
for STORIES OF THE GORILLA COUNTRY and WILD LIFE UNDER THE EQUATOR are
in great demand."
I immediately took hold of my old journals, removed the African dust
from them, and went to work, and now we are going to be LOST IN THE
JUNGLE.
* * * * *
There are countries and savages with which you have been made
acquainted in the two preceding volumes of which you will hear no more.
Miengai, Ngolai, and Makinda are not to lead us through a country of
cannibals. Aboko will slay no more elephants with me. Fasiko and
Niamkala are to be left in their own country, and to many a great chief
we have said good-by forever.
If we have left good friends and tribes of savage men, we will go into
new countries and among other strange people. We shall have lots of
adventures; we will slay more wild beasts, and will have, fierce
encounters with them, and some pretty narrow escapes. We will have some
very hard times when "lost in the jungle;" we will be hungry and
starving for many a day; we will see how curiously certain tribes live,
what they eat and drink, how they build, and what they worship; and,
before the end of our wanderings, you will see your friend Paul made
KING over a strange people! It makes him laugh even now when he thinks
of it.
I am sure we will not always like our life in the woods, but I hope,
nevertheless, that you will not be sorry to have gone with me in the
strange countries where I am now to lead you.
Let us get ready to start. Let us prepare our rifles, guns, and
revolvers, and take with us a large quantity of shoes, quinine, powder,
bullets, shot, and lots of beads and other things to make presents to
the kings and people we shall meet. Oh dear, what loads! and every thing
has to be carried on the backs of men! I shudder when I think of the
trouble; but never mind; we shall get through our trials, sickness, and
dangers safely. _En avant!_ that is to say, forward!