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laughed if any one had said that little Du Chaillu would 
one day go into unknown countries, where no white man 
had been before, and there spend the best days of his life, 
and be, as his fathers of old were, a chevalier errant. 
I remembered my two tiny little black ponies which 
my father had given me, and how kind he had been to 
me, and I also remembered my good nurse Rosee, My 
heart was sore and heavy, and I could not help thinking 
of the happy days gone by; for I was but three-and- 
twenty, with the world still bright before me, when I was 
thus sick and lonely. 
The stars peered through the dark foliage of the 
forest trees. How beautiful and bright they looked, 
reminding me of the heavens whither our spirits go! I 
thought of my mother, and where she might be, and 
wondered if she could see me as [I lay alone in that dark 
forest under the big tree. I remember how I said, Oh, 
my mother, my heart is sore and weary, I want to come 
to thee ! 
Such were often my thoughts when lying so ill under 
the big tree. I knew not if I should see the morrow. 
_So I prayed God to care for me. 
One day, after feeling so sad, I went to sleep; when I 
awoke my Bakalai men had returned from the hunt and 
were watching over me, and I felt relieved. God had 
taken care of me. Days went by, and I regained slowly 
my strength; my men went out hunting and brought me 
game, the women of the country went out fishing and 
brought me fish, the people brought me food. None of 
them wanted their Ntangani to die. They were all kind 
to me in that far country where they might have killed 
and plundered me. | 
