LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       PREFACE.

       CHAPTER I.

       London to Banana.

       CHAPTER II.

       Banana to Leopoldville.

       CHAPTER III.

       The Higher Congo.

       CHAPTER IV.

       The Equator District.

       CHAPTER V.

       The Ubangi River.—Irebu to Banzyville.

       CHAPTER VI.

       The Upper Ubangi.—Banzyville to Yakoma.

       CHAPTER VII.

       Yakoma to Djabir.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       Across Uele.—Djabir to Ibembo.

       CHAPTER IX.

       Ibembo to Stanley Falls.

       CHAPTER X.

       Stanley Falls to London.

ILLUSTRATIONS

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PREFACE.

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      This journal is practically my Diary reproduced with the minimum of editing in order that the impressions gained on the spot should be described without modification. It was never intended for publication, and was written only as an aid to memory. Consequently it is little more than a collection of rough notes.

      Having left England with a prejudice against the Government of the Congo Free State and returned with a very strong feeling in its favour, I feel however that it is my duty to publish an account of what I did see for the benefit of those whose opinions are not already formed beyond recall.

      As in all controversies where feelings subordinate reason and people judge more by their emotions than by evidence, many are too quick to-day to attribute interested motives to those whose opinions are not similar to their own. Since a great number of people in the Congo and at home are curious to know whether I was sent out by the Congo Government, the British Government or the Times, I will state here once for all that I went to the Congo entirely to please myself and with the hope of shooting big game. In order indeed to satisfy curiosity, I will go further and state that not only was I not paid for telling the truth, but that the trip cost me a great deal of money.

      It

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