Adventures in the Great Forest of Equatorial Africa and the Country (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Doubtliess the peculiar formation Of the country causes this ex ceptional condition. Instead of the vast thinly-wooded and arid or sparsely-watered plains of Northern, Eastern, and Southern Africa, the explorer finds here a region very mountainous, and SO densely wooded that the whole country may be described as an impenetrable jungle, through which man pushes on only by how ing his way with the axe. These forests, which have been rest ing probably for ages in their gloomy solitude, seem unfavorable even to the rapid increase Of the beasts who are its only denizens. There are no real herds of game; nor have the people Of this re gion yet attained that primitive step in the upward march of civilization, the possession of beasts. Of burden. Neither horses nor cattle are known here: man'is the only beast of burden.

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