Congo life and folklore
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1911]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or m...
Chapters (502)
- CONGO LIFE AND FOLKLORE
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PART I Life on the Congo AS DESCRIBED BY A BRASS ROD
- Chapter I En Route to Congo
- Chapter II My Journey up the Congo
- Chapter III My Overland Journey Begins
- Chapter IV We reach the Town of my Owner
- Chapter V A Funeral Orgy
- Chapter VI Our Town Life
- Chapter VII The Search for the Witch
- Chapter VIII Visitors Arrive
- Chapter IX Some Customs, Games, and a Journey
- Chapter X Our Reception and Entertainment
- Chapter XI Satu visits the White Man
- Chapter XII Native Games and Pastimes
- Chapter XIII Bakula accompanies an Embassy
- Chapter XIV Bakula stays with the White Man
- Chapter XV Satu receives a Title
- Chapter XVI Hunting and Bush-burning
- Chapter XVII Satu and his People go to War
- Chapter XVIII Governing, Marketing, and Trading Customs
- Chapter XIX An Accusation and the Ordeal
- Chapter XX Bakula at School
- Chapter XXI Bakula’s Work checked
- Chapter XXII Bakula Falsely Accused and Murdered
- Chapter XXIII I Find many Changes
- Chapter XXIV A Marriage and a Harvest Festival
- Chapter XXV Mikula at the Christmas Festival
- NOTES TO PART I
- PART II Congo Folklore Tales or Stories told round the Congo Fire
- INTRODUCTION TO THE FOLKLORE TALES
- I How the Fowl evaded his Debt
- II Why the Small-ant was the Winner
- III How the Animals imitated the Gazelle and brought Trouble upon Themselves
- IV Why the Fowls never shut their Doors
- V Why the Dog and the Palm-rat hate each other
- VI The Leopard boils his Mother’s Teeth
- VII How the Ants saved the Partridge’s Eggs
- VIII The Leopard sticks to the Nkondi (Wooden Image)
- IX How the Mouse won his Wife
- X The Gazelle outwits the Leopard
- XI The Gazelle punishes the Palm-rat for breaking his promise
- XII How the Crow cheated the Dove and got into Difficulty through it
- XXIX The Leopard tries to steal the Gazelle’s Wife
- XXX The Gazelle kills the Flies and Mosquitoes, and outwits the Leopard
- XXXI The Leopard is Badly Tricked by the Gazelle, Rat and Frog
- INDEX (TO PART I)
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