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STRANGE STO IES FROM AFRICA: CANNIBALS AND CHIMPANZEES,
KY
Stя H. H. JOHNSTON, K.C.B., &c.
Between 1882 and 1858, I spent something like four years on the West Coast of Africa be tween the Gembla and the Cameroon, I doubt if any period of my serves in the African coa- finest was more interesting to me. Amongst the many curious people I met was Dutrkmaa whom I will call "Van Bealingh, thongh that was not ins name. I learn that he is recently del.
famed in leaves At my exclamation the face | servants were discovered in a very exhausted was withdrawn with a slight rustling. It condition, having sustained themselves by gsther- pualysed with terror I hardly know why, ing fungi and Amomum fruita Mont of my Proseatly a spurt of fame showed the fare canoe-men were also found. As to the thirty again peering through the leaves. rather degraded type probably belonging to back to their homes on the Cross River, where fatu 6 were those of va
The portors. they had evidently run all the way 1a of the prognathous forest tribes, bordering the Hftieth that bas occurred) that I was dend they "aturally spread abroad the rumour (about itlivir physique on the Pygmy. But the eyes-town to pass by infuriated chirupauzeen.
WESTLEY, UPPER RICHMOND have sea of the routine interest. I uw boste Axwa language which is
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LAU CHU PAK. Care of A. S. Wats n & Co., Lt. Hongkong, 18th Octobet, 1902.
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to
- kindly expression. The woman was hold- ng something in her arms. For Bote minutes we wat gazing at each other poodlessly. Every now and then the flames died down. At Int speech. I begun to realise that she might the woman made some sound like human b my asivation, so I motioned her to draw Enk. This she did not understood, yet the Bent. I spoke to her in a few words of sugunge was evidently one slightly familiar
in proannciation. Sh boldly to the fro, took mora oltips and sticks, and re stepped up This curious creature was fall of extractin. pleisbol it, clarching the while what preced ary stories, good and bad, rad often in very kaukors on the
to to a young old. She squatted down on her picturesgna Enginli with just a trace of Duteuse, darud her that everal time, and then TO. 35 LEIGHTON HILL ROAD. | construció à in his sentences, and besprinkled began to talk in a low, harried voies.
oppet side of the fire to my.. Double-Frontage House.
with a great variety of indigenous negro tarms, Apply to-
Unter- His ostensible hyulkomai. I might reznurk, was language she usul. I said, "Do you know day tutely 1 could not understand a word of the that of a Natural History collector for variou, Eli Sh repeated the word Etik several. meacsuis, and for one or two pages to the times, as though it were familiar, and then in « English nord of seinus. He had samo enrious fresh outburst of speech repeated over and over freemasonry, which took him far and wide again the word Akwa or Akpa. I guessed that Amongst all native tribes injured. It would she explained to me that has know somethine of Here, to have taken down textually a solution at Oil Calabar. Fortunately I had in the sido is spoken to the ent of his stories, scale of luck Icertained to be pocket of my cout a atlutely true, while the others, if Batitious, į had written down a few words of this bangunge. notebook in which I were at any rate of Consteras interest. Here, By this means, and by the abundant and ex (2764 early as I can realetuber it, is one of the pastory gestures of which she made use I stories he jokd me, though I decline to secchlicited frota her what would appear to be a most for its accursey. Not to worry the reader I have extraordinary story, I en ly give it as I MAGDALENI TERRACE," shortened it a good deal sad lase put it into understood at tur fime, but will nas vangla MAGAZINE GAY
plam English without attempting to imitate for its ling rde. Apply to
Van Beulingh's picturesque but disonesive nad
1 man quly tell you what SPANISH PROCURATION,
disjointed style.
gloaned by this strange conversation, and what Hongkong, 1st April, 1902.
The first night we out in the forent affeg been driver out of a not far distant Babon vil- netnally saw. The womnu, I gathered, hind leaving the barks of the river there were bautslage because she had given birth to twine. This, of chimpanzuen all round as hooting and screns you know, is considered to be a terrible dis ing. Apparently in une direction they had got grace amongst the regrows of this THE RETREAT, MOUNT KELLETT."
hot of a hollow cylinder; of wood-possibly Traces of this superstition still remain at Old part of Africa. the section of a thick brauch, or one of the HOUSES in CLIFton Gardens, Goodnitatives large wooden mortars for pounding killed, but the mother is often killed alan, or at Calabar. Not only are the twins invariably Head.
food. They seem to be slapping this natural nay rato is inde fetish" and driven off into HOUSES CAUseway Bay, facing the deam with their hands and booting in clorus, the forest. Either this woman's lito had been Polo, Ground.
the notes rising the scale satif they ended attempted, or at any rate it had been threatsued, No. 2. RIPON TERRACE.
in destening shrieks and send not unlike and she had fel into the forest. There she GODOWNS at BOWRINGTON (PRAVA laughter. A chimpanze. baby was whimpering built a 1 tle kat, and sustained herself by teod- EAST)
and drying, braying at last in its passionate ing on the wild fruits, the excellent fungi, and Apply to
anger, a child brays when gally bungry. Iertain mots; while pocasionally who had was rather sexions to shoot dan of these upas presed fur mer food he steality lit ap for the moment by the blaze of one fire, vilages at night, and robbed the banana plants. appranched and standing not more than twenty yards away; tires. On oas eccari u sise narrowly »sespad but may men implored me to do nothing of the bolur caught and ille kind, aterring that the whole of the band would jittle shelter in the forest anrrounded by a
One she found her
day the assault our camp, and that although we bar of chimps, they gutted round her, might kill two or three, or even four, we should and booted, screamed, and chattered. Then a be eventually overpowered and toru to plesen.
On the third day of our journey, a huge chin kindly. This act provoked some of the females large mar chimpanzee laid hold of her, net un pauzeo plopped down from a branch that hung to attempt to thing themselves on the unfortun over the path, and stood erent as if challenging woman with tooth and nails; but the old the advance of our caravan. This time i could not resist the opportunity both of disposing of other with extraordinary flarestess and drove specimen for the museums. So I took aim with where he dragged her. For some time--I would mau chimpanzee turasi on the nous after the a possible agressor and of getting a magnificent them off. The woman was compelled to follow single-barrelled 450, and shot him through not gaiber how long-she had maro or loss lived man might do a fearful pureum, like a with the chimpanzees. Her skin bore any
before he fall. That versam cid for as. A number of other chimpanzees, malo and females, full growa na huli grown-and some of them looked to me to be pretty nearly us large as gorillas-were suddenly visible, drop ping to the ground from the lower branches,
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the jesious females, but she had managed at signs of ill-treatment at the hands and teeth of lakt. tribe, and was now on excellent terms with all to conquer a place for herself in this strange of them. She had, we before, to and her own food, for generosity has no place in their nar
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I was panic-struck. for their dead comrade and 1-tell-you- their bold raids on the neighbouring plantations
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urued right round and fled up along the path glamour of the chimpanzees, had seen the dend Hongkong, 6th November, 1902. [2983 plenty of ammnsition,
meaning to make a stand with way men, who had, and in the right bad smelt the smoke of Ent my men at the my wood fire. Finding her way to the place sight of the chim, unzees had flung down their where I lay sleep, she sat down, hoping to se losis, and run into the forest, fleeing for their When I stirred the ambers and revived the by daylight what creature it was that hit the lives, hiding themselves in the brushwood, For ROADtunately for me the greater part of the obin; had done this. The existence of white mon fl mes she had seen that it was no negro that patzues wout after them in pureeit. Two old fellows cams for me, but I killed them both some day's journey to the wait and south was The path we had followed was of the faintest known to her, and sue concluded that I must Indeed on the second day we repeatedly lost it, be one of those wonderful beings, and in alt. and I more that enspect, to use a native phrose, prola ility beneficent. it had died" from want of use.
Then my fire died down again, and in spite seemed at the time the chimpanzees came for ad mo to sleep a few more hours until morning.
We really of my interent and curiosity my weariness cu After sitting for half an hour and seeing no us to have been following an old elaphant track. The woman was still sitting the evidently more chimpanzees I began to shout to my meu in her arms. It was a horrible gnome !----half watching over me, I a ked to see what she held shout unfortunately attracted the chimpanzees, saved my life in all probabil ty. Slis led me by to return. No human being replied, but my
ape half human, child.
That woman either the same ones that had attacked us before devious ways through the forest until at last I or a fresh lot. The forest resounded with their boots. Suddenly they began to poar into the saw a welcome burst of open sky, and the glis- and where the bodies of the three dead ones the rest of thy way into the village myself. 1 relatively clear space in which I was sitting, eathered from her gesine that I was to find New
tening Fren of banana lautations. Then I lay. In a mad panie I rose and took to my heels, running desperately
in the direction where the tried to explain my thanks to her, but she had forest seemed clearest.
Larned and Red back into the forest with her Of course when I was able
rau pretty quickly the chimpanzees fal Infant. Knowing how the megpicion of could not with their shambling gait on the ages is aroused y anything like a stealthy ground keep up with me.
approach to their abodes, I set up a great shout. then a fresh euy would drop down from the in gaging in all directions Ishanted again. You every now and Presently in caras conzing out of the plants: ODOWNS No. 556, DES VEUX ROAD, and to the left, I hid myself foen spes in s
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was peaceably iuolined. went of breath. I scarcely dared to shout again. elder advanced towards ms holding out his
There was as art coumalti n. At lat, feeling that I should meet with my heels. I met him half way, death by starcation, and the almadonment of
Fund shook hande with extrema cordiality my porters, if I made no effort, I attempted to ratrace my steps to the fatal spot where the ultion came to nu end, and wist had seemed Thonforward ray. chimpanzees lay dead. By the forest looked the ultimately a most successful expe fiion. The likely to end in an appall og tragedy became some in all directions. There were no laud- Babom people turned out in f res and ransacked marks to guida me; I bad completely lost my the forest, the leade which were deserted by my Way. My only idea then was to look at the porters were picked up, and what was more we little compass attached to my watch-obal and attempt to walk composedly in a south-easterly direction, believing teat to barglows the gone opsozess Thud killed. From the appearance al trend of the path we were following, and ban dragged away by the other
of the ground it looked as though the third bad the Babom people. Even if there were the time these sarage but friendly uple wore hoping that it
might
прем, bring me to a village of for several days in the Bubom vilings. Mean- 1.rested fierce cannibals they were represented to be they ranging the woods in large bands (for protection awful apes. Night overtook me, however, and might be heard by my porters. seemed brothers and friends compared to those
against the chimpanzees), raising shouts that I had rimoled no sign of human habitation. I
My three Acera had been able to quench my thirst, because villa of water were commonly met with in the magnificent, but alarialog forest. After all, 1 was no neophyte in Af leau exploration, and had several times before been lost in the wilder 888. was therefore determined not to take too gloomy a view of the case or to wear myself out with unnecessary fatigue Accordingly sat down on ferns and toss by the side of a bittle stream, and prepared myself to pass the night. I had matches on me, with a pipe and tobacco. The pipe put heart inta me, and with one or two matches I managed to light a fire of sticks.
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