Excerpt from Stories of the Gorilla Country: Narrated for Young People
My dear young folks, -
My publishers, thinking that you would like to hear of Friend Paul, have just published specially for you this new edition of his travels in Africa in five little volumes - Stories of the Gorilla Country, Wild Life Under the Equator, Lost in the Jungle, My Apingi Kingdom (for the Apingi people made Friend Paul their king), and The Country of the Dwarfs.
When Friend Paul returned to New York he found the young folks his devoted friends; they believed in him and his books.
They believed in the great forest and jungle where he spent five years.
They believed in the horrid gorilla, and in the encounters he had with that huge monster; they believed, too, in the other apes that he had discovered, the Nshiego Mbouve, the Kooloo-kamba, and Nshiego Nkengo. Some of them saw the great gorillas and the other apes at the famous publishing house in Franklin Square. They believed in dear little Tommy, and Fighting Joe; also in the wonderful animals, insects, and snakes Friend Paul described.
They believed in all the tribes of wild men with whom he had lived, and who were friends of his; in the cannibals; and in the dwarfs. With him they loved King Ranpano, Quengueza, and Obindji, and also his hunters, Igala, Fasiko, Niamkala, Malaouen, Kerlaouen, and others.
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