Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo10amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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166 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 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 Avakul)i, 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 i:)resently be digging their scissor- like mandibles into your neck .... Imaginethe whole of France and the Iberian peninsula closely l)acked 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 M'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 mi.x up above with the fohage 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 plants. .. .and orchids and •■ a drapery of dehcate ferns. Now cover tree, branch, twig, and creeper with a thick moss like a green fur. .. .To complete the mental picture of this ruthles."
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CHIEF OF A RENOWNED CANNIBAL TRIBE The cap of leopard skin and red parrot feathers gives him wisdom; the chain of leopard canines confers the leopard's stealth and cunning. Instead of the ivory disk usually gracing the upper lip of the Congo native, he wears a polished leopard incisor

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