CHAPTER XV 



Aaron — His Capture — Mental Powers — Acquaintance with Moses 

 — His Conduct during Moses" Illness 



HAVING arranged my affairs in Ferran Vaz so as to 

 make a journey across the great forest that lies to 

 the south of the Nkami country and separates it from that 

 of the Esyira tribe, I set out by canoe to a point on the 

 Rembo about three days' journey from the place where I 

 had so long lived in my cage. At a village called Tyimba 

 I disembarked and, after a journey of five days and a delay 

 of three more days, caused by an attack of fever, I arrived 

 at a trading station near the head of a small river called 

 Noogo. It empties into the sea at Sette Kama, about 

 four degrees south of the equator. The trading post is 

 about a hundred miles inland, at a native village called 

 Ntyi-ne-nve-ni, — which, strange to say, means, in the 

 native tongue, " Some Other Place." 



About the time I reached the trading post, two Esyira 

 hunters arrived from a distant village and brought with 

 them a smart young chimpanzee of the kind known in that 

 country as the kulu-kamba. He was quite the finest speci- 

 men of his race that I have ever seen. His frank, open 

 countenance, big brown eyes, and shapely physique, free 

 from mark or blemish of any kind, would attract the notice 

 of any one not absolutely stupid. It is not derogatory to 



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