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at all events, could not possibly rouse one to frenzy 

 in the same way as porters can. 



At Kasongo we fell into the kind hands of the 

 commanding officer of the Manyuema District, 

 Commandant Moltedo, a distinguished Italian officer, 

 who had fought in Abyssinia, and cherished as his 

 most valued possession a British decoration. He 

 supplied us with newspapers less than three months 

 old, and on parting he presented me with a lump of 

 rubber and a beautiful ivory trumpet, which, con- 

 sidering the labour represented by the one, and the 

 approaching extinction of the other, he appropriately 

 called Travail et Pr ogres. * 



* The motto of the Congo Free State. 



