The world of the great forest - how animals, birds, reptiles, insects talk, think, work and live (1901) (14564013277)

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Title: The world of the great forest : how animals, birds, reptiles, insects talk, think, work and live
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903 Gleeson, Joseph M. (Joseph Michael), 1861- Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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go away, said tohis flock : I know of a place where at this time ofthe year there are trees that must be loaded with fruit(and he named the fruit). I will lead you there. Good for you, our chief! cried all the ngozos.You are a good chief. With you we shall findplenty of food. After a journey of about twenty miles, the oldleader said to his flock, Look yonder. Do yousee the tree-tops red with fruit? And they lookedin that direction and saw trees red with fruit, and alluttered cries of joy, saying, What a good morningsmeal we are going to have ! They flew with stillgreater rapidity and soon alighted upon the trees.We are here just in season, they all exclaimed at 24 THE NGOZOS the same time. Then they remained perfectly silent,so as not to attract other ngozos, and also so as notto let the monkeys know where they were. The fruitswere very dainty. Soon every ngozo was enjoying hismeal, holding the fruit in his claw (for they use theirfeet as we do our hands) and peeling it with his beak.
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After having hada good meal, theyflew away to an-other part of theforest, where their leader thought they would find akind of nut they liked very much. Halfway they settled upon a tree to feed, whensuddenly a stranger alighted among them. Theylooked at the new-comer, and at once wanted to drivehim away, for he did not belong to their flock. Greatcries of rage were heard among them ; but as theywere preparing to fight the poor wanderer, the chiefof the flock cried with a very piercing and command- 25 THE WORLD OF THE GREAT FOREST ing voice : Do not drive him away. He is lost. For some reason or another he is solitary. Dont you seethat he belongs to our kin, and has a gray body anda red tail ? Let us welcome him. The ngozos didso at once in a chorus. But, to their utter astonish-ment, they found that the stranger could not under-stand what they said to him; and when he spoke tothem they could not understand what he said, andthey marvelled at that, and looked at their new friendwith amaz