[Illustration: UNDER WAY IN AFRICA.] WILD LIFE UNDER THE EQUATOR. NARRATED FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. BY PAUL DU CHAILLU, AUTHOR OF “DISCOVERIES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA,” “STORIES OF THE GORILLA COUNTRY,” ETC. _WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS._ NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE. 1869. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. [Illustration: [Fleuron]] CONTENTS. PRELIMINARY CHAPTER Page 13 CHAPTER II. Parrot Island.—How the Parrots build their Nests.—Parrot Soup 15 CHAPTER III. An African Creek.—A Leopard among the Chickens.—A night Watch for Leopards 25 CHAPTER IV. Hunting Elephants and Buffaloes.—A venomous Serpent.—A Snake charmer.—He is bitten.—He commits Suicide 34 CHAPTER V. At Court in Africa.—Costumes of the Court.—An African Household.—A false Alarm 44 CHAPTER VI. Hunt for Gorillas.—A large one shot.—The Negroes make Charms of his Brain.—Mourning in a Bakalai Town 50 CHAPTER VII. An African Fireside.—A Camp by the Sea-shore.—The first Gorilla Hunter.—Negro Blarney 61 CHAPTER VIII. Hippopotamus hunting.—We kill one.—The Men eat it.—Poor Beef.—What the Tusks are for 69 CHAPTER IX. A great Gorilla 75 CHAPTER X. Death in an African Village.—Lamentations.—The Funeral Ceremonies.—An African Cemetery 82 CHAPTER XI. A Tornado.—Before the Storm.—Thunder and Lightning.—After the Storm 87 CHAPTER XII. A Creek infested by Snakes.—Snake in the Boat.—An ugly Visitor 93 CHAPTER XIII. Drinking the Mboundou.—How Olanga-Condo could do it.—How the Mboundou is made.—The Effect of the Poison 101