xvi CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XVI 



FROM TANGANYIKA TO THE CONGO 



I'AtJK 



Burton Gulf — Baraka — Sleeping sickness — Disappear- 

 ance of the population — More doctors Avanted — 

 Tanganyika mountains — A scene from the * Water 

 Babies' — Manyuema country — I punish and get into 

 trouble — Congo justice — Kabambare — Unpleasant 

 incident with a chief — The Congo at last — No more 

 porters — Commandant Moltedo — Travail et progres - 224 



CHAPTER XVn 



DOWN THE CONGO TO THE COAST 



Down the river in canoes — Boating songs — Arab influence 

 — A hippo orgy — Wireless telegraphy — Beginning 

 of the forest — A tame chimpanzee— Botanical station 

 at Send we — Impoverishing the country — -Europe at 

 Ponthierville — Copper mines at Bamanga — Stanley 

 Falls — The consequences of letter- writing — Steamers 

 down the river — Colours of the Congo — Leopoldville 

 — By rail to Matadi — Red-tape at Boma — Sail from 

 Banana ..---- 240 



CHAPTER XVni 



NOTES ON THE CONGO FREE STATE 



Popular prejudice — British travellers in the Congo — The Act 

 of Berlin — The case of Angola — Atrocities — Belgian treat- 

 ment of women — The difficulty of finding the truth — 

 Taxation and a money currency — The Congo State and 

 Uganda ------ 260 



