and Mal-adi, by steamers with accommodation for a limited 
number of passengers. 
Fare Antwerp-Matadi (or Pointe-Noire) : £ 1 05 to u 115. 
DEUTSCHE OST-AFRIKA LINIE — Agents in Antwerp : Wm 
H. Muller & Co. S.A., 21, Borzestraat (tel. 33.89.20). 
Monthly service between Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, Port-Said, 
Port Sudan, Massawa, Djibouti, Aden, Mombasa, Tanga, Zanzibar, 
Dar-es-Salaam, Porto Amelia, Mozambique, Nacala and Beira by 
steamers with accommodation for a limited number of passengers. 
Fare from Antwerp (Hamburg) to Mombasa : £ 90 to 157; 
to Dar-es-Salaam : £ 93 to 160; to Beira : £ 1 1 0 to 182. 
«UNION» AFRIKA LINIE — 21, Neue Rabenstrasse, Hamburg 36. 
Antwerp agents : Agence Maritime Dekeyzer Thornton S.A. - 
14, Longue Rue de I'Hopital (tel. 33.78.19) and Agence Mari- 
time M. Coveliers - 2, Ankerrui (tel. 33.46.91 and 33.56.37). 
There is a fast service, every 17 days, between Hamburg-Rotter- 
dam-Antwerp-Boma and Matadi by modern cargo boats with 
accommodation for a limited number of passengers. 
Fare from Antwerp to Matadi (Boma) : Class A - D.M. 1,166, ■ 
Class B - D.M. 1,060. 
COMPAGNIE MARITIME DES CHARGEURS REUNIS. — Paris, 
3, Boulevard Malesherbes (8*') — Bordeaux, 1, Allee de Char- 
tres. 
General Agent in Brussels ; Office Beige des Compagnies Fran- 
caises de Navigation, 29, Boulevard Ad. Max (tel. 17.21.63). 
Bordeaux-Pointe-Noire : Service every fortnight by the motor- 
steamers « Brazza », « Foucault » and « General Leclerc »; 
calling at Dakar, Conakry, Sassandra, Abidjan, Lome, Cotonou, 
Douala, Libreville and Port-Gentil. 
AIR 
SABENA — Societe Anonyme Beige d'Exploitation de la Naviga- 
tion Aerienne, 15, boulevard de 1' Imperatrice, Brussels (tel. 
1 1 .90.60) . 
Since alterations are frequently made to time-tables and price- 
lists please consult the monthly publications of the Sabena. 
Brussels-Leopoldville and vice-versa ; Super DC-6 planes. 
Five flights a week, of which three standard class (48 seats) 
one calling at Tripoli, one at Casablanca and one at Rome; one 
luxury class (38 air-sleepers and two standard seats) calling at 
Geneva; one tourist class (78 seats) calling at Lisbon. As from 
April 12, one standard class plane (subject to cancellation) 
calling at Tripoli, and, as from. July, a further tourist class plane 
calling at Rome. 
Fare, standard class ; 19.320 Bfrs. — R/T (1 year), 34.780 
Bfrs. — R/T (30 days), 30.920 Bfrs.; tourist class: 15.400 
Bfrs. — R/T 27.720 Bfrs. Supplement of 500 Bfrs. in luxury 
class. 
Brussels-Johannesburg and vice versa : (via Leopoldville) . 
One Super DC-6 luxury class plane, calling at Geneva, Kano and 
Leopoldville. 
Fare : 25.200 Bfrs. — R/T 45.360 Bfrs. 
Brussels-Stanleyville and vice versa : 
Four Super DC-6, of which two (one tourist class and one 
standard class) via Entebbe, with DC-3 connections to Stanley- 
ville, and two (one tourist class and one standard class) via 
Leopoldville with direct DC-4 connection to Stanleyville. 
Fare, standard class : 20. 1 00 Bfrs. — R/T (1 year) 36.180 Bfrs. 
R/T (30 days) 32.160 Bfrs. — tourist class : 16.100 Bfrs. — 
R/T 28.980 Bfrs. 
Brussels-Elisabethville and vice versa (via Entebbe) . 
Two Super DC-6, of which one standard class and one tourist 
class, calling at Rome, Athens, Cairo and Ertebbe. 
Price, standard class : 24.250 Bfrs.; R/T (1 year) 43.650 Bfrs.; 
R/T (30 days) 38.800 Bfrs.; tourist class : 18.620 Bfrs.; R/T 
33.520 Bfrs. 
Johannesburg-Elisabethville and vice versa : DC-4 plane. 
One flight weekly. The flight takes 4 hours 30 minutes. 
Fare : £ S.Af. 32.15.0 — R/T 58.19.0. 
Nairobi-Entebbe-Usumbura-Bukavu and vice versa — DC-4 
plane to Usumbura and DC-3 from Usumbura to Bukavu. 
One flight weekly. The flight takes 5 hours 30 minutes. 
Fare to Usumbura (or Bukavu) : E.Af. sh 535 — R/T 963. 
Dar-es-Salaam-Albertville-Usumbura-Bukavu and vice versa — 
DC-3 plane. — One flight weekly. The flight takes 7 hours 
1 0 minutes. 
Fare to the three Congoiese airports : E.Af. sh. 650; R/T 1.170. 
N. B. — See « Inland Transports » for the Ndola-Elisabethville 
and Loanda-Leopoldville services by Sabena. 
On the return journey, the following ports are called at as a 
tourist attraction : Casablanca, Tenerife, Madeira and Lisbon. 
Minimum price: 1st. cl. 135.900 Fr.fr.; 2nd. cl. 108.700 Fr.fr. 
Harbor tax 4.375 Fr.fr. and 2.445 Fr.fr. 
Extra fare for luxury cabin and single bed cabin. 
COMPAGNIES DE NAVIGATION CYPRIEN FABRE ET FRAIS- 
SINET — 3 et 15, rue Beauvau, Marseilles. 
General agent in Brussels : Office beige des Compagnies fran- 
caises de Navigation, 29, Boulevard Ad. Max (tel. 17.21.63). 
In the Belgian Congo : Voyages « IMMO ». 
Marseilles-Pointe-Noire — Service assured about every 3 weeks 
by the steamers « General Mangin » and « Foch » of the A 
category. Putting in at Palma de Majorca, Algiers, Casablanca, 
Dakar, Conakry, Sassandra, Abidjan, Lome, Cotonou and Douala. 
On the return journey the following ports are also called at : Port- 
Gentil, Las Palmas and Barcelona. 
Rates : 1st class - A cat. min. 135.900 Fr.fr. - B cat. 122.300 
Fr.fr. — 2nd class - A cat. min. 108.700 Fr.fr. 
Harbour tax : 4.901 Fr.fr. and 3.113 Fr.fr. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
For tourists wishing to take the Nile route or the South Africa 
(Capetown) route, it is interesting to know that the Compagnie 
des Messageries Maritimes has a service between Marseilles and 
Alexandria and that the following companies have organized a 
service to Cape Town : the Union-Castle Line from Southampton 
and London by the west and east coasts of Africa, the Holland 
Afrika Lijn of Amsterdam (Southampton) by the east coast of 
Africa, the Lloyd Triestino of Venice by the east coast and the 
Holland West Afrika Lijn by the west voast. 
LINES 
SOBELAIR. — Societe Beige de Transports par Air — 137, rue 
Royale, Brussels (tel. 18.13.95 - 96). 
Special voyages in four stages to the main towns of the Eastern 
Congo, the Katanga and Eastern Province — via Italy, Greece, 
the Lebanon, Egypt and the Sudan. 
The following prices include board and food during the voyage. 
Fare from Brussels to Juba : 17.500 Bfrs. To Irumu: 18.400 Bfrs. 
To Bukavu and Usumbura : 19.000 Bfrs. To Albertville : 20.350 
Bfrs. To Stanleyville : 18.100 Bfrs. To Elisabethville 21.500 Bfrs. 
Price reductions for large families, students, missionaries, children 
of colonials and for return tickets. 
Special terms for tickets on credit. 
PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS INC. (P.A.A.) — Belgian 
Branch : 55, Cantersteen, Brussel (tel. 11.64.05) and 25, rue 
Van Estborn, Antwerp (tel. 32.73.64) . 
Planes Super - 6 Clippers. 
New York-Lisbon-Leopoldville-Johannesburg and return — Two 
flights weekly — stopping at Dakar, Monrovia and Accra. 
At Lisbon, connection once a week from and to Brussels. 
Fare : Lisbon-Leopoldville : 1st class U.S.A. $ 355,60 — return 
ticket $ 640,10; tourist class $ 285,60 — return ticket 514,10. 
New York-Leopoldville : 1st class U.S.A. $ 720 — return ticket 
$ 1.296 — off $ 1.216; tourist class 540 — return ticket 
$ 972 ^ off $ 875. 
AIR FRANCE — Representative Office for Benelux, 5, Place de 
Brouckere, Brussels (tel. 18.67.00). 
Constellation planes. 
Paris-Brazzaville via Douala and return — Two flights weekly. 
From Brussels to Paris, 5 Sabena flights daily. 
Fare : Brussels-Brazzaville 1st class : (reclining seats) 19.320 
Bfrs. — R/T 34.780 Bfrs. — Tourist class : 15.400 Bfrs. — 
R/T 27.720 Bfrs. 
Paris-Brazzaville : 1st class : 133.300 Ffrs. - R/T 239.940 Ffrs. 
Free overnight accommodation in Paris, within the limits of nor- 
mal connection (24 h.) Stops on the way without increase in 
price. 
ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES (K.L.M.) — Brussels, 43, Cantersteen 
(tel. 13.06.15) — Antwerp, K.L.M. , 1, Teniersplaats. 
Amsterdam- Brazzaville- Johannesburg. 
One flight a week on Super Constellation plane. 
Fare from Brussels to Brazzaville via Rome — standard class : 
19.320 Bfrs. — R/T 34.780 Bfrs. — tourist class : 15.400 Bfrs. 
— R/T 27.720 Bfrs. 
Fare via Amsterdam and Frankfurt : standard class : 19.600 Bfrs. 
— R/T 35.270 Bfrs. — tourist class : 15.680 Bfrs. — R/T 
28.825 Bfrs. 
UNION AEROMARITIME DE TRANSPORT (U.A.T.) — 19, Bou- 
levard Malesherbes in Paris (8*^) — General Agent in Belgium : 
Office Beige des Compagnies francaises de Navigation : 29, Bou- 
levard Adolphe Max - Brussels ("tel. 17.21.63 and 18.37.62). 
Paris-Brazzaville — One flight a week by a four-engined jet- 
propelled « Comet » — 4 flights a week by DC 4 Pullman, two 
of which through Douala and two through Bangui. 
Fare « Comet » : 133.300 French francs — DC 4 Plane : 
107.000 Ffrs. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
We would draw the attention of tourists wishing to go to the 
Belgian Congo by air, but who are first visiting British East Africa 
(Kenya and Uganda), Rhodesia, Angola, French Equatorial Africa 
or Ethiopia, to the fact that the following airlines provide several 
services : 
The B.O.A.C. (British Overseas Airways Corporation) — Airways 
Terminal, Buckingham Palace Road - London S.W. 1. 
General agent in Belgium : B.E.A. (British European Airways) - 
Hotel Atlanta, 9, Boulevard Adolphe Max, Brussels. 
Services : London-Nairobi, London-Entebbe (Kampala) and Lon- 
don-Livingstone (Victoria-Falls) — From Nairobi and Entebbe, 
Sabena air service to the Congo. 
LAND CONNECTIONS 
BENGUELA RAILWAY COMPANY — Rua do Ataide, 7A, Lisbon 
and COMPAGNIE DU CHEMIN DE FER DU BAS-CONGO AU 
KATANGA (B.C.K.), 7, rue Montagne du Parc, Brussels (tel. 
1 1.80.17) . 
Lobito-Elisabethville — Every week : 
A semi-express train on Tuesdays at 21 .50 h. from Lobito and on 
Fridays at 12.15 h. from Elisabethville — Length of the journey 
71 h. 
This train connects with the regular boats of the C.M.B. calling 
at Lobito. 
A slow train leaves Lobito on Fridays at 1 8 h. and Elisabethville 
on Tuesdays at 18.15 h. — Length of the journey 86 h. 
Fare Lobito-Elisabethville : luxury train : 1st. cl. 3481 fr. — 
2nd. cl. 2.137 fr. — ordinary train : 1st. cl. 3.317 fr. — 2nd. cl. 
2.040 fr. 
RHODESIA RAILWAYS — Salisbury House, 241, London Wall 
E.C.2 England — SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAYS — General 
Manager, Johannesburg and COMPAGNIE DU CHEMIN DE FER 
DU BAS-CONGO AU KATANGA (B.C.K.), 7, rue Montagne du 
Parc, Brussels (tel. 11.80.17). 
Travelers to Elisabethville must change at Bulawayo, where they 
have connections with arrivals and departures of trains from the 
three following directions. 
Cape Town-Bulawayo-Elisabethville — Three trains weekly in 
each direction — From Cape Town on Tuesdays, Thursdays and 
Saturdays at 14.00 h. and from Elisabethville on Sundays and 
Wednesdays at 9 h. and on Fridays at 8 h. — length of the 
journey from 99 to 102 hours. 
Fare Cape Town-Elisabethville : 1st. cl. £ 23.3.6 -j- 383 C.fr.; 
2nd.cl. £ 15.7.1 -h230 C.fr. 
Johannesburg-Bulawayo-Elisabethville — Three trains weekly in 
each direction — From Johannesburg on Wednesdays, Fridays 
and Sundays at 11.30 h., and from Elisabethville on Sundays 
and Wednesdays at 9 h. and on Fridays at 8 h. — length of the 
journey : from 79 to 82 h. 
Fare Johannesburg-Elisabethville : 1st. cl. £ 14.11.9 4" 383 C.fr. 
2nd. cl. £ 9.13.3 -(- 230 C.fr. 
Beira-Bulawayo-Eiisabethville — Three trains weekly in each 
direction — From Beira on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 
17,30 h., and from Elisabethville on Sundays, Wednesdays and 
Fridays — Length of the journey : 95 to 98 hours. 
Fare Beira-Elisabethvilie : 1st cl. £ 12.17.5 383 C.fr. 
2nd. cl. £ 8.9.5 -f 230 C.fr. 
EAST AFRICAN RAILWAYS AND HARBOURS. — (Chief Com- 
mercial Superintendent — P.O. Box 306, Nairobi). 
A. Kenya and Uganda Section. 
Mombasa-Nairobi-Kampala-Kasenyi (western shore of Lake Al- 
bert) . 
IhroLigh service Mombasa-Kasenyi every fortnight, on Sundays 
at 4 p.m. — by train as far as Namasagali, by steamer as tar 
as Masindi Port, by road as tar as Butiaba (eastern shore of the 
lake) and by steamer as far as Kasenyi — Arrival on Saturdays 
at 6 a.m. On the return journey departure on Saturdays at midday, 
and arrival in Mombasa on Fridays at 9,15 a.m. 
Timetable 1954: From Mombasa: January 10 and 24; Fe- 
bruary 7 and 21; March 7 and 21; April 4 and 18, etc. 
From Kasenyi : January 16 and 31; February 13 and 24; March 
13 and 27; April 10 and 24, etc. 
Fare ; Mombasa-Kasenyi (East African currency : 1 sh = about 
7 Bfrs.) 1st class : 232,90 — 2nd class : 174,50. 
One daily service Mombasa-Nairobi (departure at 16.00 hours. 
Air-France — Paris-Nairobi and Paris-Fort-Lamy, Douala and 
Bangui. 
Aigle-Azur : 70, Champs-Elysees, Paris (8'') — Service between 
Paris and Tananarive (Madagascar) via Dar-es-Salaam. 
Compagnie de Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux (T.A.!.) — 
23, rue de la Paix, Paris 2® — Service Paris-Libreville. 
Scandinavian AiiJines System — (Denmark - Norway - Sweden). 
Shell Building, 60, rue Ravenstein, Brussels (tel. 11.40.13 - 
1 1.44.22). 
Brussels-Khartoum-Nairobi-Johannesburg, via Zurich by Super 
DC 6. 
Swissair — Shell Building, 60, rue Ravenstein, Brussels. — Ser- 
vice between Stockholm, Copenhague, Amsterdam and Zurich, to 
Nairobi. 
T.A.P. (Transports Aereos Portugueses) rua Braamcamp 2, Lis- 
bon. — ■ Lisbon-Loanda. From Loanda, Sabena and Portuguese 
(D.T.A.) service to Leopoldville. 
Ethiopian Airlines inc. — Addis Abeba, P.O.B. 1755, — from 
Cairo to Nairobi via Port Sudan, Asmara and Addis-Abeba — 
From and to Cairo, all directions. 
— RAIL AND ROAD 
arrival next day at 09.25 hours) and three trains weekly (Mon- 
day, Thursday, Saturday) between Nairobi and Kampala — 
departure at 10.80 hours. 
The voyage lasts 30 hours 40 minutes. From Nairobi, Sabena 
plane to Usumbura and Bukavu and, from Kampala, a fortnightly 
car service to Bukavu (see Congo Tours) . 
Fares in East African currency : Mombasa-Nairobi, 1st class : 
73.20 sh.; 2nd class: 48.80 sh. — Mombasa-Kampala, 1st 
class : 169.90 sh.; 2nd class : 1 13.30 sh. 
B. Tanganyika Section. 
Dar-es-Salaam-Kigoma. Two trains a week each way — on 
Tuesdays and Saturdays at 10. a. m. from Dar-es-Salaam and on 
Mondays and Thursdays at 6 h. 10, p. m. from Kigoma — 
duration of the journey : 45 h. 10. Connection from and to 
Kigoma with the C.F.L. steamers on the Lake Tanganyika from 
and to Albertville and Usumbura (see inland services) . 
Fares : Das-es-Salaam-Kigoma (East African currency) . — 1st cl. 
single Sh. 174/40; 2nd cl. single-ticket 116/30. 
CHEMIN DE FER CONGO-OCEAN — P. B. 6051 — Pointe-Noire. 
Pointe-Noire-Brazzaville — Three monorail-cars (bar) every 
week, each way : from Pointe-Noire on Mondays, Wednesdays 
and Fridays and from Brazzaville on Tuesdays, Thursdays and 
Saturdays — duration of the journey : 1 1 h. 
One train with sleeper 1st and 2nd class and dining-car a week 
in each direction : from Pointe-Noire on Wednesdays at 18.30 
hours, from Brazzaville on Thursdays at 1 8.45 hours — duration 
of the journey : 1 3 h. 30. The train also runs whenever steamers 
are expected. 
Fares Pointe-Noire-Brazzaville : 1st class 2.705 C.F.A. frs — 
(1 C.F.A. fr. ~ 2 metropolitan francs); 2nd class 2.195 C.F.A. 
frs. — Extra charge for berths (Cie Int. des W.-L.) 1st cl. 415 
C. F.A. frs, 2nd cl. 310 C.F.A. frs. 
TRAVEL BY ROAD. 
One may proceed to the Belgian Congo by road. 
A. — The road chiefly taken is the one through the Sahara, 
which enables travelers to start their journey from Europe by 
road. 
Such a trip may hov/ever be undertaken only from December to 
March because of seasonal floods caused by the Tchad. 
There are two itineraries from Algiers (or Oran) : 
over the Hoggar,via Laghouat, Ghardaia, El Golea, In Salah, 
Arak, Tamanrasset, Agades, Zinder, Kano, Fort-Lamy and Ban- 
gassou, total 6.020 km. 
over the Tanezrouft, via Colom.b-Bechar, Beni-Abbes, Adrar, 
Reggan, Bidon V, Tassalit, Gao, Niamey, Kano, Fort-Lamy, Ban- 
gassou, total 6.784 km. 
Note. — It is possible to pass from one route to another over 
the Adrar-EI Golea, Beni-Abbes-EI Golea or Adrar-ln Salah cross- 
roads. Colomb- Bechar can be reached by leaving from Morocco. 
From Kano, there is only one itinerary : Kano, Fort-Lamy, Fort- 
Archambault, Fort-Crampel, Bangassou. 
From Bangassou to Stanleyville via Bondo and Buta : 739 km. 
The Touring Club de France, in agreement with the General 
Government of Algeria, has organised a scheme of assistance 
for motorists using the Sahara routes. This scheme comprises : 
1 ) for all miOtorists, a breakdown contract, to be signed with the 
T.C.F. office in Algiers or with the Heads of Territories or of 
Stations in the Sahara, or with the Mediterranean-Niger Railroad 
Network. This agreement ensures that, when travellers are 36 
hours overdue, they shall be sought for and transported to the 
nearest station. This task is entrusted to the following organise- 
