The Jungle Folk of Africa (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Jungle Folk of Africa "In the realm of the unknown, Africa is the absolute, " said Victor Hugo. Since the time of Hugo the civilized world has become better acquainted with African geography, but the Africans themselves are still a people unknown. A certain noted missionary, while on furlough in America, after delivering a masterly and brilliant lecture on Africa to an audience of coloured people, gave an opportunity for persons in the audience to ask him questions pertaining to the subject. He was rather abashed when an elderly negro, who had been deeply interested in the lecture, called out: "Say, Mistah S., is they any colo'ed folks ovah thah?" Most people know that there are a goodly number of "colo'ed folks" in Africa, but the knowledge of the majority extends only to the colour of the skin. And if in this book I endeavour to make the Africans known as they really are, it is because I believe that they are worth knowing. In the generation that has passed since the books of Du Chaillu were the delight of boys - old boys and young - the African has received but scant sympathy in literature. Du Chaillu had the mind of a scientist and the heart of a poet. He never understated the degradation of the African nor exaggerated his virtues, but he recognized in him the raw material out of which manhood is made. He realized that the African, like ourselves, is not a finality, but a possibility - "the tadpole of an archangel, " as genius has phrased it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.