Savage Africa: Being the Narrative of a Tour in Equatorial, Southwestern, and Northwestern Africa; with Notes on the Habits of the Gorilla; on the Existence of Unicorns and Tailed Men; on the Slave Trade; on the Origin, Character, and Capabilities of the Negro, and on the Future Civilization of Western Africa |
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afterward Ananga Angola animal appear Ashantee asked Cabinda calabash called Camma cannibals canoe Cape captain Casemanche chimpanzee cloth Coast Congo Corisco cried Dahomey dance dark disease drink elephants English Equatorial Africa eyes face Fans feet Fernand Vaz Fernando Fernando Po fetich fever forest French Fula Gaboon Gambia gave girl gorilla hair hands head heard horse inhabitants interior island Joachim killed kind king Kru-men Lacépède land live Loanda looked Mafuk Mandingoes manner marabouts missionaries Mohammedans Mongilomba morning mountains mouth Mpongwe mulatto musquitoes natives Ncomo negro never night Oshupu palaver palm-oil passed plantains Podor Portuguese Quenqueza race river round savage seen Senegal Senegambia Sierra Leone skin slave-trade slaves sometimes soon tails thing told took town trade tree tribes village voyage Western Africa wife wished woman women young
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