“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, never mind where it is; just keep quiet and hope it will go away - for that's your best chance; you have none in a stand-up fight with a good thorough-going African insect.” IfsMindLooksFightingChancePayAttentionFiguresQuietCrossesFlyingGoing AwayInsectsThoroughGemsLobster Book:West African Studies Source: West African Studies
“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 learning the alphabet of their language, so that I may some day read what these pictures mean.” LooksMayMeanLittlesI CanLanguageCan DoLibraryForestsGrimAlphabet Author:Mary Kingsley
“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 full of ferns and plants - the sort you come across in drawing rooms at home, with wire-work legs. I do not mean that Mondoleh has wire-work legs under water, but it looks as if it might have.” IfsLooksMeanHomeMightWaterPerfectRoomsFlowerPlantLegsDrawingAdmireIslandsWireGemsFerns Author:Mary Kingsley
