ACCOUNT OF THE MUSEUM’S CONGO EXPEDITION 149 

MR. HERBERT LANG LEADER OF THE 
CONGO EXPEDITION 
Mr. Lang, an expert in 
zoological survey and modern 
taxidermy, has had previous 
experience in Africa, having 
gone in from Mombasa on the 
Jast Coast in 1906 
four centuries after the 
discovery of the river 
was it charted, that is, 
by Stanley in 1877. 
Latterly, conditions 
have wholly changed. 
There is now a lure for 
all nations in ivory, gold 
and rubber. The Arabs 
have been driven away 
and the slave trade abol- 
ished. Where formerly 
there was no way of 
transferring objects from 
MR. 
JAMES CHAPIN, ASSISTANT 
Spainand Russia. It has 
been given over to fever 
and sleeping sickness, to 
raiding Arabs, and_ to 
various negro tribes vic- 
tims of slavery, and more 
or less cannibalistic in 
habit. It has neither 
sent out invitation nor 
given cordial greeting to 
the white man, who up 
to 1871 had not been 
more than one hundred 
and fifty miles from the 
coast. At that time no 
one knew whether the 
head waters of the Congo 
belonged to the Niger or 
to the Congo. Not till 

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