In African Forest and Jungle

Transcriber's Notes: Blank pages have been eliminated. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. The cover page was created by the transcriber and can be considered public domain.
I saw peeping through the leaves a black fierce face looking at us.
Paul Du Chaillu
Author of King Mombo, The World of the Great Forest, The Viking Age, The Land of the Long Night, Ivar the Viking, The Land of the Midnight Sun, Explorations in Equatorial Africa, Stories of the Gorilla Country, Wild Life under the Equator, Lost in the Jungle, My Apingi Kingdom, The Country of the Dwarfs, etc., etc.
Illustrated by Victor Perard
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons 1903
Copyright, 1903 By Charles Scribner's Sons
Published September, 1903
UNIVERSITY PRESS, JOHN WILSON AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.


A CANOE-VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF ROTEMBO THE CHIEF—A TOILET OF CEREMONY—ROTEMBO's GROTESQUE COSTUME—A FORMAL RECEPTION—SPEECHES OF ROTEMBO AND MYSELF—A DANCE IN MY HONOR—MY PRESENTS TO THE CHIEF—WE BECOME GOOD FRIENDS