MANYANGA TO LEOPOLDVILLE (STANLEY POOL). 119 
open and unchecked for nearly a thousand miles eastward 
up the Congo. In fact Léopoldville, situated at the 
western entrance to Stanley Pool, is destined to be the - 
great Empire city of Central Africa. rom its shores 
there are, according to Stanley’s calculations, 4,520 miles 
of free navigation north, and south, and east, into the 
heart of Africa. It will one day be the terminus of a 
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railway from the coast and the starting point of a river 
journey half across Africa. The ivory, copper and iron; 
the spices, the wax and the gums of the interior will meet 
in its mart the costumes of London and Paris and products 
of the manufactories of the old world. Or, in another 
sense, the raw material which is poured into Léopoldville 
from the interior will return to it from the exterior in 
