The Land of the Long Night

Author of The Viking Age, Ivar the Viking, The Land of the Midnight Sun, Exploration in Equatorial Africa, etc.
Illustrated by M. J. Burns
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1901
Copyright, 1899, By Charles Scribner's Sons. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.
TO EX-CHIEF JUSTICE CHARLES P. DALY
As I write this dedication, dear Judge Daly, a flood of recollections comes over me of unbroken friendship and great kindness on your part and that of your wife, whose memory I venerate and cherish. This friendship has never faltered for a moment, but has grown stronger and stronger as the years have rolled by. Fortunate is the man who wins for himself two such friends! I have never ceased to remember the warm interest you and your noble-hearted wife took from the first in my explorations in Africa. I can only give you in return love and devotion for all the kindness I have experienced at your hands.
Your devoted friend, Paul Du Chaillu.
September 1, 1899.

My Dear Young Folks:
Friend Paul has led many of you into the great Equatorial Forest of Africa. We met there many strange and wild tribes of men, and lived among cannibals and dwarfs or pygmies. We hunted together, and killed many elephants, fierce gorillas, leopards, huge crocodiles, hippopotami, buffalos, antelopes, strange-looking monkeys, wonderful chimpanzees of different varieties,—some of them white, others yellow or black,—and many other kinds of animals.