GLOSSARY OF NATIVE ANIMAL-NAMES
| Apilibish | Butterfly. |
| Bashikouay | Ant (species). |
| Bongo | Antelope (species). |
| Compagnondo | Fishing Eagle (species). |
| Guanionien | Giant Eagle. |
| Hako | Ant (generic name). |
| Iboboti | Spider. |
| Iboco | Fly (species). |
| Ibolai | Fly (species). |
| Ipi | Scaly Ant-eater. |
| Izomba | Turtle. |
| Kambi | Antelope (species). |
| Kongoo | Fishing Eagle (species). |
| Kooloo-kamba | Ape (species). |
| Manga | Manatee. |
| Mboyo | Jackal. |
| Miengai | White-moustached Monkey. |
| Mogara | Ant (species). |
| Mondi | Jet-black, Long-haired Monkey. |
| Nchegai | Mandrill. |
| Nchellelay | White Ant, or Termite. |
| Ncheri | Gazelle. |
| Nchouna | Fly (species). |
| Ndova | White-nosed Monkey. |
| Ngando | Crocodile. |
| Ngina | Gorilla. |
| Ngoa | Wild Boar. |
| Ngooboo | Hippopotamus. |
| Ngomba | Porcupine. |
| Ngozo | Parrot. |
| Niare | Buffalo. |
| Njego | Leopard. |
| Njokoo | Elephant. |
| Nkago | Red-headed Monkey. |
| Nkema | Monkey (generic name). |
| Nkengo | Ape (variety). |
| Nshiego | Chimpanzee (variety). |
| Nshiego-mbouvé | Bald-headed Ape. |
| Nshiey | Fish. |
| Ntoto | Ichneumon. |
| Ntungoolooya | Kingfisher. |
| Nyoi | Wasp. |
| Oganagana | Bluish Black Monkey. |
| Ogata | Burrowing Crocodile. |
| Ombama | Python. |
| Omemba | Serpent, Snake. |
| Oseli | Lizard. |
| Osengi | Monkey (species). |
| Oshingi | Civet. |
| Ozoni | Ant (species). |
| Vengela | Grasshopper. |
| Viviki | Mosquito. |
Popular Juveniles by Paul Du Chaillu
The LAND of the LONG NIGHT
WITH 24 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
BY W. J. BURNS. Square 12mo, $2.00
The Nation.
The record of a winter journey from Southern Sweden up through Lappmark, Finland, and Finmark to Nordkyn, the extreme end of the European mainland. To say that it will interest its youthful readers from beginning to end is well-nigh superfluous.
New York Tribune.
Happy is the winter evening of that young person who, forgetting time and space and the household gods about him, goes forth into strange countries with Paul Du Chaillu. For that most kindly of travellers has in narrative a beguiling simplicity and realism which enables him to hold his readers closely to the end.
New York Times Saturday Review.
It is a capital book for boys or girls or anybody, and Mr. Burns has contributed a great many excellently drawn and very telling illustrations.
The Outlook.
Here are information, stories, and incidents of adventure in Arctic regions strung together by a personal narrative of travel—all readable, unconventional, entertaining.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
His narrative is engagingly frank, full of information, and with no lack of adventure and incident. It will prove a treasure to readers young and old.
IVAR THE VIKING
A ROMANTIC HISTORY, BASED
UPON AUTHENTIC FACTS OF THE
THIRD AND FOURTH CENTURIES
12mo, $1.50
Richard Henry Stoddard.
There is that in Mr. Paul Du Chaillu’s “Ivar the Viking” which not only satisfies the lover of romantic adventure, but carries the scholar back into the remotest period of Scandinavian history. Beyond all living writers this traveller in and explorer of many countries has collected the documents and discovered the secrets of the Norselands.
New York Times.
The reader who has begun with a blank mind closes the volume with a tolerably clear expression of a very energetic, powerful, and wealthy young Viking, capable of strong affection, foremost in games and fights requiring physical force, and with a vast number of habits and customs. It is a history that interests through its simplicity.
The Nation.
“Ivar the Viking” is to be thoroughly recommended. The story is characteristically spirited, and the romantic part leaves nothing to be desired.
Paul Du Chaillu’s Great Work
THE VIKING AGE
THE EARLY HISTORY, MANNERS, &
CUSTOMS OF THE ANCESTORS OF
THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING NATIONS
WITH 1400 ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAP
2 vols., 8vo, $7.50
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, Publishers
New York Tribune.
“These luxuriously printed and profusely illustrated volumes embody the fullest account of our Norse ancestors extant. Mr. Du Chaillu has gone very fully and very carefully over the whole of his ground. This extensive and important work must be of high interest to all English-speaking people.”
Newark Advertiser.
“Their weapons, ornaments, ships, domestic manners and customs, art and industries, are all reconstructed with a minuteness that is remarkable, if we consider (as we must) that all this comes to us after centuries of neglect.”
London Athenæum.
“What is really valuable in these volumes is the exhaustive digest which they contain of the extant information respecting the manners and character of the ancient people of Scandinavia. The work deals with the entire field of Scandinavian archæology. In the main, we believe the picture he has drawn of the manner of life of the Vikings and their countrymen to be as accurate as it is undoubtedly full of interest.”
Edinburgh Review.
“The subject of M. Du Chaillu’s work is vast in extent and full of perplexing difficulties. We have shown that its author has collected a store of valuable information, a great part of which has hitherto been inaccessible to English readers. His enthusiasm will have a very useful effect if it leads the people of this country to study and admire the ancient civilization and the splendid literature of our Scandinavian kinsmen.”
Springfield Republican.
“Mr. Du Chaillu is every whit as agreeable and entertaining as a student of history as he has long proved to be in the character of a traveller.”
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
“Mr. Du Chaillu has certainly given to the literary world a work full of interest.”
The Nation.
“While in Germany and in Scandinavia itself books have been written upon the life of the ancient inhabitants of the North, no such comprehensive, popular work as this, with citations from the old literature and illustrations of all sorts of objects preserved from the ancient days, has yet appeared. It is, accordingly, an unused opportunity that the author of the work, with characteristic energy, has recognized and seized. The two volumes are filled to overflowing with curious and interesting facts concerning the people of the Scandinavian North, whose manners, social customs, and national life the more than thirteen hundred illustrations serve to bring up almost visibly before us. The book as a whole is a record of persistent and ingenious research, and of extraordinary literary zeal.”
Philadelphia Record.
“M. Du Chaillu’s book is full of valuable information respecting the manners and character of the ancient Norse people. It is, in fact, a perfect museum of Northern antiquities, covering the entire field of Scandinavian archæology. The extracts from the Sagas which are furnished must whet the appetite of students of Norse literature.”
Boston Transcript.
“Mr. Du Chaillu’s monumental work, ‘The Viking Age,’ upon which the careful labor of over eight years has been expended, is one for which scholars will be profoundly grateful. It brings together from innumerable sources a vast amount of information, relative to the period covered, never before put in systematic form. The chapters on the mythology and cosmogony of the Norsemen, on the superstitions, slavery, graves, finds, weapons, occupations, feasts, warfare, etc., are intensely interesting. The text is accompanied by nearly fourteen hundred illustrations.”
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, Publishers
153–157 Fifth Avenue, New York
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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| [190] | six legs were cut off, one after the other, in this way | eight legs were cut off, one after the other, in this way |
- Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained.