The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State, by Marcus Dorman

Title: A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State

Author: Marcus Dorman

Release Date: March 4, 2005 [eBook #15240]

Language: English

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A JOURNAL

OF A

TOUR IN THE CONGO

FREE STATE

BY

MARCUS R.P. DORMAN, M.A.

AUTHOR OF A History of the British Empire in the Nineteenth Century.
The Mind of the Nation, A STUDY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY;
Ignorance, A STUDY OF THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF POPULAR THOUGHT
AND From Matter to Mind.

Dedicated by Permission to His Majesty Leopold II, King of Belgium and Sovereign of the Congo Free State.

CONTENTS

• 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

• MAP--ITINERARY OF MARCUS R.P. DORMAN IN THE CONGO FREE STATE
• THE STEAMER «FLORIDA.»
• THE NATIVE HOSPITAL AT BOMA.
• THE CATARACTS RAILWAY NEAR MATADI.
• THE RAILWAY STATION AT MATADI.
• THE STEAMER «FLANDRE.»
• CATARACTS AT LEOPOLDVILLE.
• STEAMERS AND DOCKS AT LEOPOLDVILLE.
• THE AMERICAN MISSION HOUSE AT LEOPOLDVILLE.
• NATIVES OF THE UPPER CONGO.
• BOTANICAL GARDENS AT EALA.
• NATIVE CHIEFS AT COQUILHATVILLE.
• THE FARM AT EALA.
• THE UBANGI RIVER..
• YOUNG COFFEE TREES AT COQUILHATVILLE.
• SANGO NATIVES OF THE UBANGI.
• THE UPPER UBANGI.
• YOUNG SANGO GIRLS AT BANZYVILLE.
• THE STATE POST AT DJABIR.
• THE RIVER NEAR BANZYVILLE.
• THE SULTAN OF DJABIR.
• WARRIORS AT DJABIR.
• THE ITIMBIRI RIVER.
• BASOKO FROM THE RIVER.