Wild Life under the Equator. Narrated for young people, etc
Paul Du Chaillu's 1869 retelling of his Gabon travels for young readers, condensing his equatorial African expeditions into short hunting and village episodes. Full-page wood engravings, captioned in small capitals along the plate edge, set gorillas, hunters and driver-ant columns inside dense foliage of palm fronds, lianas and tree ferns, with heavy cross-hatched shadow against pale sky — useful for jungle texture, animal silhouettes and dark-ground vignettes.
