George Grenfell and the Congo: A History and Description of the Congo Independent State and Adjoining Districts of Congoland Together with Some Account of the Native Peoples and Their Languages, the Fauna and Flora, and Similar Notes on the Cameroons
George Grenfell and the Congo: A History and Description of the Congo Independent State and Adjoining Districts of Congoland Together with Some Account of the Native Peoples and Their Languages, the Fauna and Flora, and Similar Notes on the Cameroons...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...streams naturally blocked by fallen timber; shooting fish with wooden arrows; knocking down birds and monkeys with the boomerang or club; driving big game into pitfalls or morasses and killing it with poisoned wooden lances and arrows (canes tipped with bone or stone-flake).2 In warfare against his own ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...streams naturally blocked by fallen timber; shooting fish with wooden arrows; knocking down birds and monkeys with the boomerang or club; driving big game into pitfalls or morasses and killing it with poisoned wooden lances and arrows (canes tipped with bone or stone-flake).2 In warfare against his own species his weapons were much the same; plus the use of hands, arms, teeth, and butting head. He wrestles now for sport and in rare good humour, foul play being almost less existent in the wrestling matches of the Congo and the Cameroons than in our own modern gladiatorial contests. Yet wrestling began with the attempt of one male Pithecanthropos to break the back or crush the chest of another 1 It is possible that the unadulterated, aboriginal negro may have been without the dog as an assistant in hunting until he received it from the Nile basin. In Uganda and Unyoro legends the wandering, civilizing, cattle-breeding Hima demigod is always associated with a dog. 2 It is interesting to note that in some of the districts of the northern Congo, "arrow" is expressed by kati=u little stick," male, rival in love or too emulous in food appropriation. And wrestling in Congoland is not quite forgotten as a death grapple, any more than biting is left out of account in a hand-to-hand contest.1 But the Hima civilizer from the Upper Nile--by routes direct and indirect--came pre-eminently to the Forest negro and the Pygmy as the Hunter, armed with weapons of copper and iron, able to devise harpoons, fish-hooks, axes, choppers, spear-blades, scimitars, and sharp-bladed knives; cunning in net-making; skilled in basket-work and the devising of subtle traps. Therefore the founder of dynasties, the demigod, the Leader, consolidator of peoples, ...
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