# Among Congo cannibals

Author: Weeks, John H., 1860-1924

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69650

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Among+Congo+cannibals+Weeks&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

When living at San Salvador, in what is now known as the Portuguese Congo, in the early eighties of last century, the writer frequently conversed with the natives about the inhabitants of the far interior who occupied the banks of the Great Congo River and its tributaries. The San Salvador folk assured him that the natives of the mysterious hinterland were “half fish and half human”; that “from the navel upwards they were human, and downwards they were fish.” No arguments would alter their opinion, and no amount of good-natured raillery would shift them from their position; and they generally clinched the matter by saying: “You have never seen these people; but some of our grandfathers sa...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/18/index.md)
- [chapter I wish to write a few lines on the figurative mode of speaking](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/among-congo-cannibals-69650/chapters/5/index.md)