A voice from the Congo - comprising stories, anecdotes, and descriptive notes (1910) (14596979668)

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Title: A voice from the Congo : comprising stories, anecdotes, and descriptive notes

Year: 1910 (1910s)

Authors: Ward, Herbert, 1863-1919

Subjects: Ward, Herbert, 1863-1919 Africa, Central -- Description and travel Africa, Central -- Social life and customs

Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons

Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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round his waist, with the endstrailing in the dusty ground behind him, completedhis dress. The costumes of his followers were no lessamazing in their incongruity, and the whole formed acollection of so varied a nature as would have arousedthe interest of a Houndsditch clothier. The parasolsof all shades and descriptions; the yards of cloth andcotton goods; the rows upon rows of glass beadswhich adorned the bodies of the women; the jinglingof the bells; the brave show of old flintlock guns;the queer uses to which some of the garments hadbeen put: all made a picture not easily to be forgotten.Without a word being said, the procession en-tered the market-place, and in a most dignified man-ner marched through the throng of admiring anddumfounded spectators, only to retire in the sameorder as they had come, still without uttering a word,whilst we all stood gazing in astonishment and silenceas they followed the narrow serpentine path which ledthem back to their village in the valley below.

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C 3 AN ELEPHANT HUNT Elephant-hunting alone and on foot, in spite ofnumerous obstacles in the shape of dense vegeta-tion and boggy ground, with the physical strainof tramping, climbing, and wading, is an excitingsport. Whilst living at Bangala, on the north bank of theUpper Congo River, one thousand miles in the in-terior of Central Africa, I heard many native ac-counts of the number of elephants to be found in theforests of the district of Mobunga, on the oppositeshore of the river. Upon an appointed day, accompanied by twenty-five Bangala natives as paddlers, I embarked in alarge native war-canoe bound for Mobunga. Beforeus, at the close of a long days paddling—for theUpper Congo River at this point is some twentymiles in width, from one main bank to the other—lay the low forest bank of the south shore. Thevillage was soon located by the tiny columns of bluesmoke which wreathed the upper branches of thegiant cotton-trees. 19 20 A VOICE FROM THE CONGO This country had never befor

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