"Savage tribes and stirring encounters with wild beasts." - Saturday Review, 1903

"One of the most delightful and instructive of writers of travel and adventure." - The Christian Work & Evangelist, 1902

"Thrilling experiences in hunting elephants crocodiles gorillas and a number of other wild beasts." - The Book Buyer, 1902

"Plenty of exciting adventure and hair-breadth 'scapes." - Presbyterian Banner, 1902

"Admirable, an authentic story of personal adventure in Africa." - The Athenaeum, 1903

"Equal to his best stories." -New-York Observer, 1903

Landing near the equator in Africa, the author plunged into the jungle and lived with King Mombo and his people, sharing their adventures and dangers. In narrating a white man's adventures in the great African rain forest Du Chaillu in his 1902 book "King Mombo" throws a vivid glare of light into those dense, dark African rain forests and reveals their strange life and fearful scenes. It is full of slaves and slave hunters, crocodiles and lions and tigers and elephants and snakes and gorillas, with plenty of exciting adventure and hair-breadth 'scapes.

Recounting his adventures in the great African forest the author declares that he could write many more volumes dealing with the wild men and "savage tribes" which he encountered there. In describing the manners a type of a primate the natives called "ngina," which later fought several of his dogs, the author writes:

"He gives yell after yell, roar after roar, until the whole forest is filled with the din of his big voice. Then he comes forward, walking erect, and roaring all the time. Sometimes the yell resembles that of an angry dog, though a hundred times louder. His big vindictive gray eyes look his antagonist straight in the face, glaring vengeance."