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good cooking ; in respect of habits, suitable clothing, exercise, 

 cleanliness of persons, quarters and ventilation, also industry 

 and thrift ; and in respect of all things, intelligent practice 

 and self-restraint. 



" In all men, education is conditional not alone on an 

 enlightened head and a changed heart but very largely on a 

 routine of industrious habits, which is to character what the 

 foundation is to the pyramids. The summit should glow 

 with a divine light, interfusing and qualifying the whole mass, 

 but it should never be forgotten that it is only upon a founda- 

 tion of regular, daily activities that there can be any fine and 

 permanent upbuilding. Morality and industry generally go 

 together." 



If this chapter should chance to be read by those in 

 authority at the Belgian Colonial Ministry, let me recommend 

 the work of the African Educational Commission, as a basis 

 for a successful native policy in the Belgian Congo. 



With this chapter and this book, having faintly conjured 

 up the Congo Wonderland as I see it, a few more lines are 

 necessary to fill in the picture as the ss. Semois completes her 

 ten days' trip from Stanleyville to Kinshasa. 



We are by now well on our way to Stanleypool and as I 

 write we are in the neighbourhood of Lake Leopold 11. Some 

 of us are considering the possibility of the existence of a 

 subterranean lake in Central Africa to which Lake Leopold 

 may be an entrance, and in which the last gigantosaurus may 

 have died ! We have experienced several tornadoes ; we 

 have passed George Grenfell's grave at Basoko and many 

 another too ; the many model " factories " of Messrs. Lever 

 Bros, have gone by and we have seen the Belgian seaplanes, 



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