Jungle Portraits

JUNGLE BY DELIA J. AKELEY WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1930 COPYRIGHT, 1930, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1930 SET UP BY BEOWN PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE BERWICK SMITH CO. A JUNGLE PORTRAIT, TO MY MOTHER CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. OUR PRIMITIVE NEIGHBORS 1 IL APES AND MONKEYS 15 III. ELEPHANTS IN THE FOG 71 IV. CONGO RESTHOUSES 96 V. CROCODILES Ill VI. THE FLAMINGOS OF LAKE HANNINGTON . . . 140 VII. IN QUEST OF THE PYGMIES 159 VIII. JUNGLE RESCUE 230 ILLUSTRATIONS A jungle portrait Frontispiece FACING PAGE More jungle callers. The Sultan, heading an imposing pro cession across the palaver ground, makes his official visit to the new guests of the resthouse 4 A woman of the Walese tribe with lip plugs, tattooing and jewelry. Mangbetu babies, whose heads have been bound since birth ... 8 The village modiste painting a design on her clients body. Hairdressing at the market place 12 The colobus monkey at the Meru sawmill 20 The young pet baboon at San Kuri. The thumbless colobus monkey at the Meru sawmill playing possum to coax the dogs to come and play 32 Canoes on the Tana River 40 A Wafocomo woman, lower Tana River, Kenya Colony . . 30 Unloading boats at a camping place, Tana River. Preparing luncheon in Mrs. Akeley s jungle kitchen .... 58 Waboni woman bush mother and child, Tana River, Kenya Colony 64 The dense primeval forest on Mt. Kenya, where hunting ele phants calls for all the courage one has. Elephants rest ing at midday 72 An old elephant trail. Preparing the hide of an elephant for transportation backto America 80 Carl Akeley and the first elephant he shot after settling the question of his morale. Mr. Akeley and J. T. Jr. . . 90 An avenue of palms leading up to a picturesque resthouse. A welcome sight at the end of a long, hard march ... 98 The Sultan arrives for an afternoon call on Mrs. Akeley, bring ing three of his three hundred wives 104 ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE The servants quarters behind the resthouse. Mogornbo on the right, Simuoni the cook in the center, and his helper on the left 108 A well-worn game trail leading down to the crocodile-infested Tana River. A Tana crocodile asleep on a sandbar . . 114 Hippos infest the Tana River and share the same sandbars with man-eating crocodiles 118 A Congo ferry. Mrs. Akeleys porters crossing a river in dugout canoes 126 Flamingos of Lake Hannington . . . . .. j t .., . t, 144 Loading the dugouts for a river journey . . . . . . 156 Traveling with camels across the arid desert country which lies between the Tana River and Abyssinia 162 Mrs. Akeley s caravan leaving the Government Station, . 168 Native-built roads 172 Mrs. Akeley and some of her pygmy friends. Tepoi and carriers 180 The pygmies Sultan, on the right, poses with his people for Mrs. Akeleys camera. A promise of refreshment brought these pygmies with their drums into a clearing to dance . 190 Kisenyi, Belgian Congo. A Walese village in a clearing in the Ituri Forest 196 A well-proportioned pygmy 204 Pygmies in a Walese village in the Dark Forest, where the little people are safe from the prying eyes of white men 210 Two young Okapi. These animals were brought out of the forest by the pygmies and survived for several months at the mission at Buta Basuele, Belgian Congo... 220 One of the Kikuyu huts in which Mrs. Akeley searched for the runaway guides. Ringuru 236 Bringing Mr. Akeley out of the forest on a stretcher-A hospital camp on the edge of the Kenya Forest . . . 244 JUNGLE PORTRAITS