LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

[Gorilla Hunting]Frontispiece
[My Reception by the King]3
[Enticing the Leopard]23
[Flocks of Birds]29
[Scene with the Mbousha]37
[Killing the Snake]47
[King astonished at Looking-Glass]59
[Entrapping the Elephant]67
[Fan Blacksmiths at Work]75
[The Handja]78
[Net-Hunting]83
[Mangrove Swamp. Tumbling and Falling]89
[Slave Barracoons. Burial Ground]97
[Embarking Slaves]103
[The Gazelle]109
[After Dinner]117
[A Leopard and her Young One]125
[Aboko kills a Rogue Elephant]133
[Fishing]143
[Turning Turtles just before Sunrise]149
[Our Schooner caught in a Tornado]157
[African Ball. King Olenga-Yombi Dancing]169
[Capturing a Young Gorilla]179
[Hippopotami at Home]189
[Marabouts, Storks, and Pelicans]199
[The King Receives Me]207
[A Crocodile Hunt]215
[The Nshiego Mbouvé]221
[Expiration of Mourning]227
[Wolf Hunting]237
[An Incantation Scene]241
[A Trial by Ordeal]253
[The Gorilla Marches upon us]259
[Meeting the Mbuiti]265
[A Young Nshiego Mbouvé with a White Face]272

Stories of the Gorilla Country.

PRELIMINARY CHAPTER.

I had passed several years on the African Coast before I began the explorations recorded in my first book. In those years I hunted, traded with the natives, and made collections in natural history.

In such a wild country as Africa one does not go far without adventures. The traveller necessarily sees what is strange and wonderful, for everything is strange.