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Title: The Land of the Long Night

Author: Paul du Chaillu

Illustrator: M. J. Burns

Release Date: September 22, 2007 [EBook #22727]

Language: English

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The
Land of the Long Night

[Illustration: Your Friend, Paul Du Chaillu]

The

Land of the Long Night

By

Paul Du Chaillu

Author of "The Viking Age," "Ivar the Viking," "The
Land of the Midnight Sun," "Exploration
in Equatorial Africa," etc.

_Illustrated by M. J. Burns_

New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
1901

_Copyright, 1899,_
BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.

University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

_TO_

_EX-CHIEF JUSTICE CHARLES P. DALY_

_As I write this dedication, dear Judge Daly, a flood of recollections
comes over me of unbroken friendship and great kindness on your part and
that of your wife, whose memory I venerate and cherish. This friendship
has never faltered for a moment, but has grown stronger and stronger as
the years have rolled by. Fortunate is the man who wins for himself two
such friends! I have never ceased to remember the warm interest you and
your noble-hearted wife took from the first in my explorations in
Africa. I can only give you in return love and devotion for all the
kindness I have experienced at your hands._

_Your devoted friend,_

_PAUL DU CHAILLU._

_September 1, 1899._

Introduction

MY DEAR YOUNG FOLKS:

Friend Paul has led many of you into the great Equatorial Forest of
Africa. We met there many strange and wild tribes of men, and lived
among cannibals and dwarfs or pygmies. We hunted together, and killed
many