Life On the Congo
Life On the Congo
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He can then put the spirit into a tusk of ivory, or among his merchandise, and convey it to the coast, where the white men will buy it. In due course, if not at the time, the ' witched ' man dies. Then the white man can make him work for him in his country under the sea. They believe that very many of the coast labourers are men thus obtained, and often when they go to trade look anxiously about for dead relatives. Sometimes when we are travelling they look on with wonder 72 LIFE ON THE CONGO.
...and disgust as we open our tinned provisions, ' cal- culating ' that that at least must be one of the uses to which we put their dead relatives.
The notion of the land under the sea has its origin in their faculty of observation. They see ships coming in from sea appear, first the mast, then the hull ; and thus at a decent distance out, so as not to reveal the trick, we white men emerge from the ocean. Travellers love to enlarge upon the wonders they have seen, and so the story grows, and the people have been brought up in the belief that away under the sea their relatives make cloth, etc.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
He can then put the spirit into a tusk of ivory, or among his merchandise, and convey it to the coast, where the white men will buy it. In due course, if not at the time, the ' witched ' man dies. Then the white man can make him work for him in his country under the sea. They believe that very many of the coast labourers are men thus obtained, and often when they go to trade look anxiously about for dead relatives. Sometimes when we are travelling they look on with wonder 72 LIFE ON THE CONGO.
...and disgust as we open our tinned provisions, ' cal- culating ' that that at least must be one of the uses to which we put their dead relatives.
The notion of the land under the sea has its origin in their faculty of observation. They see ships coming in from sea appear, first the mast, then the hull ; and thus at a decent distance out, so as not to reveal the trick, we white men emerge from the ocean. Travellers love to enlarge upon the wonders they have seen, and so the story grows, and the people have been brought up in the belief that away under the sea their relatives make cloth, etc.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by W Holman William Holman Bentley to read onlineMoreLess
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