The Congo and Coasts of Africa. Richard Harding Davis

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       Richard Harding Davis

      The Congo and Coasts of Africa

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664615510

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       ILLUSTRATIONS

       THE CONGO AND COASTS OF AFRICA

       I

       THE COASTERS

       II

       MY BROTHER'S KEEPER

       III

       THE CAPITAL OF THE CONGO

       IV

       AMERICANS IN THE CONGO

       V

       HUNTING THE HIPPO

       VI

       OLD CALABAR

       VII

       ALONG THE EAST COAST

ILLUSTRATIONS

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      R. Davis and "Wood Boys" of the Congo Frontispiece

       Mrs. Davis in a Borrowed "Hammock," The Local Means of Transport on the West Coast

       A White Building, that Blazed Like the Base of a Whitewashed Stove at White Heat

       The "Mammy Chair" is Like Those Swings You See in Public Playgrounds

       A Village on the Kasai River

       "Tenants" of Leopold, Who Claims that the Congo Belongs to Him, and that these Native People are there only as His Tenants

       The Facilities for Landing At Banana, the Port of Entry to the Congo, are Limited

       "Prisoners" of the State in Chains at Matadi

       Bush Boys in the Plaza at Matadi Seeking Shade

       The Monument in Stanley Park, Erected, Not to Stanley, but to Leopold

       The Deliverance. The River Raced over the Deck to a Depth of Four or Five Inches. Between Her Cabin and the Wood-pile, were Stored Fifty Human Beings

       The Native Wife of a Chef de Poste

       English Missionaries, and Some of Their Charges

       The Laboring Man Upon Whom the American Concessionaires Must Depend

       Mr. Davis and Native "Boy," on the Kasai River

       The Hippopotamus that Did Not Know He Was Dead

       The Jesuit Brothers at the Wombali Mission

       There, in the Surf, We Found These Tons of Mahogany, Pounding against Each Other

       A Log of Mahogany Jammed in the Anchor Chains

       The Palace of the King of the Cameroons

       The Home of the Thirty Queens of King Mango Bell

       The Mother Superior and Sisters of St. Joseph and Their Converts at Old Calabar

       The Kroo Boys Sit, not on the Thwarts, but on the Gunwales, as a Woman Rides a Side Saddle

       Going Visiting in Her Private Tram-car at Beira

       One-half of the Street Cleaning Department of Mozambique

       Custom House, Zanzibar

       Chain-gangs of Petty Offenders Outside of Zanzibar

       The Ivory on the Right, Covered only with Sacking, is Ready for Shipment to Boston, U.S.A.

       The Late Sultan of Zanzibar in His State Carriage

       H.S.H. Hamud bin Muhamad bin Said, the Late Sultan of Zanzibar

       A German "Factory" at Tanga, the Store Below, the Living Apartments Above

       Soudanese Soldiers under a German Officer Outside of Tanga

THE CONGO AND COASTS OF AFRICA

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THE COASTERS

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      No matter how often one sets out, "for to admire, and for to see, for to behold this world so wide," he never quite gets over being surprised at the erratic manner in which "civilization" distributes itself; at the way it ignores one spot upon the earth's surface, and upon another, several thousand miles away, heaps its blessings and its tyrannies. Having settled in a place one might suppose the "influences of civilization" would first be felt by the people nearest that place. Instead of which, a number of men go forth in a ship and carry civilization as far away from that spot as the winds will bear them.

      When a stone falls in a pool each part of each ripple is equally distant from the spot where the stone fell; but if the stone of civilization were to have fallen,