CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
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]