If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic gem, do not pay it the least attention, ne….

the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has let me off personally ...….

It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me..

[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him..

I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible..

One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky smell they gi….

It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that proposes ….

There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic ci….

West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with.

the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures, although I am now busily ….

Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of those flower-stands ful….