Wild life under the equator

by Paul B. Du Chaillu

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Under Way in Africa	[Frontispiece.]
Parrot Island	[21]
An African War Dance	[27]
Encounter With a Leopard	[30]
Lying Low for Elephants	[35]
The Snake Charmer	[41]
Appearance of the King and his Court	[45]
Fierce Attack of a Gorilla	[55]
Evening Amusements in Africa	[63]
Hunting Hippopotami	[71]
Head of Hippopotamus	[74]
Foot-prints of the Gorilla	[76]
Female Gorilla and her Young	[79]
Mourning the Dead	[84]
A Night Storm in Africa	[89]
In the Creek of Snakes	[95]
Drinking the Mboundou	[103]
March of Bashikouay Ants	[119]
The Bashikouay Ant, Magnified to twice its Natural Size	[123]
The Barbatula Working	[131]
African Hanging Birds’ nests	[133]
Hunting Elephants	[143]
Interior of the Njambai-house	[154]
Charming the Squirrel	[161]
The Trial of Pendé	[165]
Death of a Male Gorilla	[173]
Dancing Around the Elephant Meat	[186]
Killing Four Wild Boars	[195]
Smoking Out the Bees	[204]
Trapping the Monkey	[206]
We Discover Foot-prints	[209]
Arrival at the Stockade	[217]
Good-bye to the Bakalais	[227]

WILD LIFE UNDER THE EQUATOR.

PRELIMINARY CHAPTER.

Dear young folks!—In the book I wrote for you last year, called “Stories of the Gorilla country,” I said to you “au revoir:” that means good-bye till I come again.

I have come again to my publishers, who are also my good friends, and who have let me have my own way about the illustrations of this book; they have told me that you were pleased with the last book. Not only have they told me so, but many of you have said the same thing to me.

This was good news, for I delight to tell stories to young folks, and “Stories of the Gorilla Country” being the first book I ever wrote for you, I was delighted to hear of its success.

I felt quite happy when I learned that I had been able to interest you in what interested me, while travelling in far-distant countries.