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Identifier: myapingikingdo00duch Title: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidmyapingikingdo00duch">My Apingi kingdom : with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c.</a> Year: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1871">1871</a> (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1870">1870s</a>) Authors: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorDu_Chaillu__Paul_Belloni__1831_1903">Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni, 1831-1903</a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorHarper___Brothers__pbl">Harper & Brothers. pbl</a> Subjects: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectExplorers">Explorers</a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectKings_and_rulers">Kings and rulers</a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectAnimals">Animals</a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectShipwrecks">Shipwrecks</a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectSlavery">Slavery</a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectTsogo__African_people_">Tsogo (African people)</a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectGabon____Description_and_travel_Juvenile_fiction">Gabon -- Description and travel Juvenile fiction</a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectAfrica__West____Description_and_travel_Juvenile_fiction">Africa, West -- Description and travel Juvenile fiction</a> Publisher: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherNew_York___Harper___Brothers">New York : Harper & Brothers</a> Contributing Library: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorPrinceton_Theological_Seminary_Library">Princeton Theological Seminary Library</a> Digitizing Sponsor: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorMSN">MSN</a>


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Text Appearing Before Image: by a longstring near my bed. She would keep awake the wholenight, and make a desperate war on the roaches and oth-er insects. The broad daylight seemed to hm-t her eyes,and she would shut them up; but at night was quite an-other animal, and much more lively. One evening, by avery dim light, I watched her, and saw how quickly she 102 MY APING I KINGDOM. would seize the roaches. She was so light-footed thatshe could not be heard. Now I must give you a description of the galago. Imust tell you that the animal possesses one of the soft-est furs I know. The natives use its skin to keep theirpowdered fetiches in. Its face is full of expression, theeyes being very large for the little head; the ears are al-most transparent, the skin being very thin, stand upright,and are large for the size of the head. The eyes shinebrightly, and during the day have a reddish appearance.Like all night-animals, they can see much better in thedark than in the daytime. The tail is somewhat bushy. -joy^^ 1 ^- 1^

Text Appearing After Image: The picture of a galagowill give you an excellentidea of what the animal islike. A large specimen isof the size of a little punycat. The galago being a noc-turnal animal, as soon as Q&


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