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King Mombo
“These ... inquired if we wanted to barter for ivory with them”
King Mombo
By
Paul Du Chaillu
Author of “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
London
John Murray
1902
Copyright, 1902, by Charles Scribner’s Sons,
for the United States of America.
Printed at The University Press, John Wilson and Son,
Cambridge, U.S.A.
TO
SOLOMON SOLIS COHEN, M.D.
Philadelphia
My dear Solis,—Looking back through the vista of years, andremembering your solicitude when I came to you broken in health,and the care, professional and other, through which your affection andskill restored me to health and permitted the resumption of my literarylabors, my heart overflows. I take great pleasure in dedicating thisvolume to you as a partial evidence of the gratitude and brotherlyaffection of
Ever your firm friend,
PAUL DU CHAILLU.
New York, June 19, 1901.
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Contents
| CHAPTER I | |
| Page | |
|---|---|
| I leave New York for Africa—Narrow quarters on the schooner—Our cargo—Out of sight of land—The sea and all that therein is—A storm brewing | 1 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| A storm at sea—A tempest-tossed little bird—Fine weather again—Fight between a swordfish and a whale | 10 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| The Sargasso Sea—The northeast trade-winds—Dolphins and bonitas—New stars come into view | 17 |
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