Identifier: wondersoftropics00nort (find matches)
Title: Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M. Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc. ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. Chicago, Ill. (etc.) National Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Portuguese and Spanishisles and colonies are concerned, not altogether extinct—traffic. In early days the Congo country extended far south of the river, andin the capital of the then kingdom the Jesuits resided and reared a cathe-dral, the remains of which still exist, and owing to the priestly influenceobtained great power throughout the country. The monarch was often 366 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. ruled by females, the tales of whose ferocity were stock subjects for theearly chroniclers. The empire of Congo is, however, now a something ofthe past, though in the neigborhood of Ambassi the nominal king stillexercises sufficient control over the people to be able to annoy the cara-vans passing to and from the interior; but a score of local chieftains haveas much authority as he. Though the Portuguese claim the coast from a point considerably northof the Congo, they have never actually occupied it north of eight degreesof south latitude; and here the reader must note that we are getting
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GUEREZA WITH BEAUTIFUL FLYING MANTLE. south of the equator. The elephant is not now met with in the maritimeregion, but in the less populous regions antelopes, zebras, buffalos—not,it need scarcely be remarked, the American bison, which is popularlyknown by that name—hyaenas, jackals, leopards, and the monkey. As for the monkey tribe, a description of the guereza must suffice.The general color of this monkey is black. The sides of the body andtop of the loins are ornamented with long, pendant, white hairs, forminga fringe-like mantle. The face is encircled by white, and the tail ends ina white tuft. The guereza lives, according to Riippell, in small families,tenanting the lofty trees in the neighborhood of running waters. It is

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