Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, المجلد 1S. Low, Marston, Low, and Searle., 1876 |
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الصفحة xv - And portance in my travel's history : Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills, whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak ; — such was the process \— And of the cannibals that each other eat. The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
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الصفحة 211 - The people of the countrie, when they travaile in the woods, make fires where they sleepe in the night ; and in the morning when they are gone, the Pongoes will come and sit about the fire till it goeth out ; for they have no understanding to lay the wood together.
الصفحة 66 - ... a man in the eyes of an African community." Perhaps also he unconsciously recognizes the sentiment ascribed to Mohammed, " Laysa bi-zanyatin illa bi zdni," " there is no adulteress without an adulterer," meaning that the husband has set the example. Polygamy is, of course, the order of the day; it is a necessity to the men, and even the women disdain to marry a " one-wifer." As amongst all pluralists, from Moslem to Mormon, the senior or first married is No. i ; here called " best wife :" she...
الصفحة 188 - ... in game ; but, notwithstanding all this, they were not contented with hunting and feeding upon their enemies, but preyed much upon each other also, for many of their captures were made from amongst the people of their own tribe...
الصفحة 196 - Marimba," the prototype of the pianoforte. It is made of seven or eight hard-wood slats, pinned with bamboo tacks to transverse banana trunks lying on the ground : like \he.grande caissc, it is played upon with sticks, plectra like tent-pegs. Mr. W. Winwood Reade ("Savage Africa," chap, xiii.) says: "The instrument is also described by Froebel as being used by the Indians of Central America, where, which is still more curious, it is known by the same name—
الصفحة 223 - He is not king of the African forest ; he fears the Njego or leopard, and, as lions will not live in these wet, wooded, and gameless lands, he can hardly have expelled King Leo. He does not choose the "darkest, gloomiest forests," but prefers the thin woods, where he finds wild fruits for himself and family. His tremendous roar does not shake the jungle : it is a hollow apish cry, a loudish huhh ! huhh ! huhh ! explosive like the puff of a steam-engine, which, in rage becomes a sharp and snappish...
الصفحة 189 - Cruelty seems to be with him a necessary of life, and all his highest enjoyments are connected with causing pain and inflicting death. His religious rites — a stron'g contrast to those of the modern Hindoo — are ever causelessly bloody.
الصفحة 184 - Fan's bill of fare, anthropophagy can hardly be caused by necessity, and the way in which it is conducted shows that it is a quasi-religious rite practised upon foes slain in battle, evidently an equivalent of human sacrifice. If the whole body cannot be carried off, a limb or two is removed for the purpose of a roast The corpse is carried to a hut built expressly on the outskirts of the settlement ; it is eaten secretly by the warriors, women and children not being allowed to be present, or even...
الصفحة 85 - They have not only fear of, but also a higher respect for him " (that is, power of evil) " than for the giver of good, so difficult is it for the child-man's mind to connect the ideas of benignity and power. He would harm if he could; ergo so would his god.