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ALICE TRAVELS IN JUNGLELAND
愛麗絲漫游叢林
MARY HASTINGS BRADLEY
瑪麗·黑斯廷斯·布拉德利
This is a true story of Alice Bradley, whose home is in Chicago. Her father and mother went to Africa with some friends to study the animals and people of the strange and beautiful land. Alice went with them on their travels. This story tells you how they marched from day to day, and of the black men, called "boys", who carried their baggage.
這是一個關于愛麗絲·布拉德利的真實故事，她的家在芝加哥。她的爸爸媽媽跟一些朋友去非洲那片陌生而美麗的土地上考察當地的動物和人。愛麗絲也跟著去了。這個故事向你講述了他們如何日復一日地行進，以及那些幫他們搬運行李的、被稱為“男孩”的黑人。
WHAT THE TRAVELERS CARRIED
旅行者攜帶的東西
It made Alice laugh to see how many things a white man needed in Africa: his tent, his cot and blankets, his clothing, his folding-chairs and tables, his guns and bullets, his cameras, his food-boxes and cooking-pans and medicines.
帳篷、帆布床、毯子、衣服，折疊椅、桌子、槍、子彈、照相機、飯盒、炊具和藥品，看到白人在非洲需要這么多東西，愛麗絲笑了。
The black man traveled with just the goatskin that he wore day and night, his spear, his knife, his gourd for water, and a little bag in which he carried his pipe and tobacco and a little food.
黑人旅行時，只帶著他白天和晚上都披著的羊皮、他的矛、匕首、盛水的葫蘆、以及一個小袋子，里面放著煙斗、煙草和一些食物。
A strong black man can take sixty pounds on his head and walk with it from four to eight hours a day.
一個強壯的男性黑人頭上頂著60磅重的物品，一天能走4到8個小時。
It took two hundred black men to carry all the things that this party of six people needed in the jungle. They had sixty-five boxes of food alone! And the matches they carried were nearly enough to make a full load for one porter. The natives made fire by twirling a piece of very hard wood in a hole in a piece of very soft wood. With just a few twirls they made a spark glow in the soft wood.
這一行6個人在叢林里需要的所有物品需要200個男性黑人搬運。他們帶的食物就有65盒。攜帶的火柴重量就相當于一個搬運工的全部負載量。土著人通過在一塊非常軟的木頭孔里快速地轉動一塊非常硬的木頭來取火。僅僅轉動幾次，他們就能讓火花在軟木頭里燃燒起來。
