A voice from the Congo : comprising stories, anecdotes, and descriptive notes . tf. * SKETCHES OF NATIVE CHARACTER 15 valour. Said one: I am the greatest buffalo-hunterin all Ngembi. Another man related the manyvaliant deeds which he had performed in told of how he had faced an infuriated ele-phant, and killed it with a charge of stones firedfrom his old flint-lock gun. Suddenly the wood crackled, shedding a showerof sparks, and the alacrity with which these bold-hearted hunters took flight was remarkable. * * * * * Although the sense of gratitude, in our ordinarilyaccepted meaning
A voice from the Congo : comprising stories, anecdotes, and descriptive notes . tf. * SKETCHES OF NATIVE CHARACTER 15 valour. Said one: I am the greatest buffalo-hunterin all Ngembi. Another man related the manyvaliant deeds which he had performed in told of how he had faced an infuriated ele-phant, and killed it with a charge of stones firedfrom his old flint-lock gun. Suddenly the wood crackled, shedding a showerof sparks, and the alacrity with which these bold-hearted hunters took flight was remarkable. * * * * * Although the sense of gratitude, in our ordinarilyaccepted meaning of the term, is rarely met withamong Central Africans, it must not be thought thatthis virtue is foreign to their nature. As an illus-tration however of the absence of a sense of grati-tude, I must cite an instance of a man who sufferedfrom a form of skin disease. By dint of simpleremedies I succeeded in purifying the mans blood,and, in fact, the patient proved so amenable to mytreatment that at the end of a month I told him thathe was perfectly cured and might go home. Yes
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