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Congo spices will be mingled in English and Americ: 
the only note-paper in use amongst the fashionable world 
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other forms. Its sugar will come back in the! al 
shape of Parisian bonbons, its india-rubber will bed rei m= 
ain 
ported as highly necessary goloshes and waterproofs, — 
sauces, and over the counters of its toilet shops - | 
merchant enriched in the ivory trade will purchase ivory- — 
handled brushes which are made in England from the — s 
tusks that his firm has exported. Who knows, even, th - 
of Léopoldville may not some day be manufactured from | 
the very papyrus which so thickly grows around the — 
woody islands and the reedy shores of Stanley Pool ? ee % 
