FOREWORD
From earliest boyhood when I read the works of Henry M. Stanley and books about Cecil Rhodes, Africa has called to me. It was not until I met General Smuts during the Great War, however, that I had a definite reason for going there.
After these late years of blood and battle America and Europe seemed tame. Besides, the economic war after the war developed into a struggle as bitter as the actual physical conflict. Discord and discontent became the portion of the civilized world. I wanted to get as far as possible from all this social unrest and financial dislocation.
So much interest was evinced in the magazine articles which first set forth the record of my journey that I was prompted to expand them into this book. It may enable the reader to discover a section of the one-time Dark Continent without the hardships which I experienced.
I. F. M.
New York, April, 1921
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Smuts | [15] |
| II. | "Cape-to-Cairo" | [57] |
| III. | Rhodes and Rhodesia | [103] |
| IV. | The Congo Today | [139] |
| V. | On the Congo River | [177] |
| VI. | America in the Congo | [225] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
King Albert [Frontispiece]
Groote Schuur [facing page 28]
General J. C. Smuts [44]
Mr. Marcosson's Route in Africa [56]
Cecil Rhodes [76]
The Premier Diamond Mine [90]
Victoria Falls [102]
Cultivating Citrus Land in Rhodesia [110]
The Grave of Cecil Rhodes [132]
A Katanga Copper Mine [138]
Lord Leverhulme [144]
Robert Williams [144]
On the Lualaba [150]
A View on the Kasai [150]
A Station Scene at Kongola [156]
A Native Market at Kindu [162]
Native Fish Traps at Stanley Falls [168]
The Massive Bangalas [176]
Congo Women in State Dress [176]
Central African Pygmies [182]
Women Making Pottery [190]
The Congo Pickaninny [190]
The Heart of the Equatorial Forest [198]
Natives Piling Wood [204]
A Wood Post on the Congo [204]
Residential Quarters at Alberta [210]
The Comte de Flandre [210]
A Typical Oil Palm Forest [216]
Bringing in the Palm Fruit [216]
A Specimen of Cicatrization [220]
A Sankuru Woman Playing Native Draughts [220]
The Belgian Congo [224]
Thomas F. Ryan [228]
Jean Jadot [236]
Emile Francqui [242]
A Belle of the Congo [246]
Women of the Batetelas [246]
Fishermen on the Sankuru [254]
The Falls of the Sankuru [254]
A Congo Diamond Mine [260]
How the Mines Are Worked [260]
Gravel Carriers at a Congo Mine [266]
Congo Natives Picking out Diamonds [266]
Washing out Gravel [272]
Donald Doyle and Mr. Marcosson [272]
The Park at Boma [278]
A Street in Matadi [278]
A General View of Matadi [282]