ILLUSTRATIONS

[ 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]