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quickly and safely twenty more were engaged from village to village. 
It is interesting to know that after twenty-two days’ march under all 
the difficulties of making way through a wet tropical forest, this large 
caravan was brought to a safe arrival at Avakubi, having lost neither 
man nor load and with everything of the equipment in perfect condition. 
To read the following quoted from Stanley’s description of the 
Congo jungle brings a fuller appreciation of this march: 
Lean but your hand on a tree, measure but your length on the ground, seat your- 
self on a fallen branch, and you will then understand what venom and activity 
breathe around you. Open your notebook, the page attracts a dozen butterflies, 
a honey-bee hovers over your hand; other forms of bees dash for your eyes; a wasp 
buzzes in your ear, a huge hornet menaces your face, an army of ants come march- 
ing to your feet. Some are 
already crawling up, and will 
presently be digging their scissor- 
like mandibles into your neck 
_... Imagine the whole of France 
and the Iberian peninsula closely 
packed with trees whose crowns 
of foliage interlace and prevent 
any view of sky and sun.... 
Then from tree to tree run cables 
from two inches to fifteen inches 
in diameter, up and down in 
loops and festoons and W’s and 
badly-formed M7’s; fold them 
round the trees in great tight 
coils, until they have run up the 
entire height, like endless ana- 
condas; let them flower and leaf 
luxuriantly, and mix up above 
with the foliage of the trees to 
hide the sun, then from the high- 
est branches let fall the ends of 
the cables reaching near to the 

ground by hundreds... .Work 
others through and through these 
as confusedly as possible ....on 

every horizontal branch plant 
cabbage-like lichens of the larg- 
est kind, and broad spear-leaved 
CHIEF OF A RENOWNED CANNIBAL TRIBE 
The cap of leopard skin and red parrot plants....and orchids and 
feathers gives him wisdom; the chain of adrapery of delicate ferns. Now 
leopard canines confers the leopard’s stealth cover tree, branch, twig, and 
and cunning. Instead of the ivory disk creeper with a thick moss like a 
usually gracing the upper lip of the Congo green fur....To complete the 
native, he wears a polished leopard incisor mental picture of this ruthless 
