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Henry M. Stanley. My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories
My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories
Table of Contents
"My Dark Companions"
Preface
Chapter One
The Creation of Man
Chapter Two
The Goat, The Lion, and The Serpent
Chapter Three
The Queen of the Pool
Chapter Four
The Elephant and the Lion
Chapter Five
King Gumbi and his Lost Daughter
Chapter Six
The Story of Maranda
Chapter Seven
The Story of Kitinda and her Wise Dog
Chapter Eight
The Story of the Prince who Insisted on Possessing the Moon
Chapter Nine
How Kimyera Became King of Uganda
Chapter Ten
The Legend of the Leopardess and her Two Servants, Dog and Jackal
Chapter Eleven
A Second Version of the Leopard and the Dog Story
How the Dog outwitted the Leopard
Chapter Twelve
The Legend of the Cunning Terrapin and the Crane
Chapter Thirteen
The Legend of Kibatti the Little who Conquered all the Great Animals
Chapter Fourteen
The Partnership of Rabbit and Elephant, and what came of it
Chapter Fifteen
The Adventures of Saruti
Chapter Sixteen
The Boy Kinneneh and the Gorilla
Chapter Seventeen
The City of the Elephants
Chapter Eighteen
The Search for the Home of the Sun
Chapter Nineteen
A Hospitable Gorilla
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Henry M. Stanley
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Soon after the darkness had fallen the captains of the expedition and the more intelligent men began to form the evening circle, and after we had discussed the state of the night, and the events of the day, I called out to Baruti for his story, when, after telling us what a great time had elapsed since he had heard it, and how by searching into the recesses of his memory he had at last remembered it, he delivered the story of “The Goat, the Lion, and the Serpent,” in the following manner:—
A Goat and a Lion were travelling together one day on the outskirts of a forest, at the end of which there was a community of mankind comfortably hutted within a village, which was fenced round with tall and pointed stakes. The Goat said to the Lion:
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