Part I. 
TRIP TO GORILLA LAND. 
CHAPTER I. 
LANDING AT THE RIO GABAO (GABOON RIVER).— 
LE PLATEAU, THE FRENCH COLONY. 
REMEMBER with lively pleasure 
my first glance at the classic stream 
of the “ Portingal Captains ” and the 
“ Zeeland interlopers. ” The ten- 
mile breadth of the noble Gaboon estuary some¬ 
what dwarfed the features of either shore as we 
rattled past Cape Santa Clara, a venerable name, 
“ ’verted” to Joinville. The bold northern head, 
though not “ very high land,” makes some display, 
because we see it in a better light; and its envi¬ 
rons are set off by a line of scattered villages. 
The vis-a-vis of Louis Philippe Peninsula on the 
starboard bow (Zuidhoeck), “ Sandy Point ” or 
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