A voice from the Congo : comprising stories, anecdotes, and descriptive notes . Native fighting knife and sheath, Manyema In the collection of the Author THE TALE OF A TUSK OF IVORY 123 the village of Yabuli. The direction of the pathshad been somewhat altered, as many of the huts hadbeen rebuilt; for being composed of light materialssuch as fine grass and leaves, with the lighter frame-work of cornstalks, they soon became rotten, andit is necessary to repair them after every rainy sea-son and to rebuild the huts every few years. It happened one day that the occupants of a fish-ing canoe retur
A voice from the Congo : comprising stories, anecdotes, and descriptive notes . Native fighting knife and sheath, Manyema In the collection of the Author THE TALE OF A TUSK OF IVORY 123 the village of Yabuli. The direction of the pathshad been somewhat altered, as many of the huts hadbeen rebuilt; for being composed of light materialssuch as fine grass and leaves, with the lighter frame-work of cornstalks, they soon became rotten, andit is necessary to repair them after every rainy sea-son and to rebuild the huts every few years. It happened one day that the occupants of a fish-ing canoe returned to Yabuli in a great state of ex-citement. They had been down the river fishingnear the village of Basoko, which is situated at theconfluence of the Aruwimi and the Congo, and theyhad heard wonderful accounts of a fight that hadtaken place a few days before, between the fiercemen of Basoko and a party of strangers who weredrifting down the Congo River in war-canoes. Thestory of this remarkable adventure had been greatlyembellished, according to African custom, by thefrie
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