Lost in the Jungle
e traveled together through the Gorilla Country, and saw not on
hants, hippopotami, wild boars, great serpents, etc., etc. We were
ore them. When I mentioned the subject to my acquaintances, many of them laughed at the notion of my lecturing
in Boston, Brooklyn, and New York; not only did my young frie
eloquently than words could do, and told him that he had done well to go into the great jun
ite more books for them, the tremendous cheers and hurras th
be happy to shake hands with his young hearers, the rush then made assured him that they were his friends. Oh! how your
teemed friends, my publishers in Franklin Square, and as
Write a new book, for Stories of the Gorilla Country
ved the African dust from them, and went to work
r no more. Miengai, Ngolai, and Makinda are not to lead us through a country of cannibals. Aboko will slay no more elephant
nters with them, and some pretty narrow escapes. We will have some very hard times when "lost in the jungle;" we will be hungry and starving for many a day; we will see how curiously certain tribes live, what
I hope, nevertheless, that you will not be sorry to have gone
ots of beads and other things to make presents to the kings and people we shall meet. Oh dear, what loads! and every thing has to be carried on the backs of