Africa of to-day . is navigable three hundred and fiftymiles to and beyond Kannu. The Shari also is navi-gable for a considerable distance, and by means ofits tributary, the Logone, connects with the Benueand the Niger, affording a waterway between the Gulfof Guinea and Lake Chad. Stores for the militaryand government posts are forwarded by this is, however, no connecting link between thecoast rivers — Gabun, Ogowe, and Kwilu — and theKongo system. A railway, five hundred miles long,is under construction from Gabun to Sanga. Anotheris proposed from Loango to Bizol. A narrow gauge l
Africa of to-day . is navigable three hundred and fiftymiles to and beyond Kannu. The Shari also is navi-gable for a considerable distance, and by means ofits tributary, the Logone, connects with the Benueand the Niger, affording a waterway between the Gulfof Guinea and Lake Chad. Stores for the militaryand government posts are forwarded by this is, however, no connecting link between thecoast rivers — Gabun, Ogowe, and Kwilu — and theKongo system. A railway, five hundred miles long,is under construction from Gabun to Sanga. Anotheris proposed from Loango to Bizol. A narrow gauge line,one metre, begun in 1908, was the first railway inFrench Kongo; it serves to develop rich copper andother mines. There is still in commission the caravanroute via Wadai across the Sahara to Bengazi onthe Mediterranean. There are sundry telegraph linesthroughout the territory. Very large landed estateswere granted to Limited Liability Companies, the con-cessionaires representing a capital of £4,000,000, the. Copyright, Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. Eternal Snow Almost on the EquatorAn American explorer climbing Mt. Kibo (Kilimanjaro), igjoo jeet high in East Central Africa WESTERN AFRICA 183 concessions ranging in size from four hundred andtwenty-five to fifty-four thousand square miles. It wasfelt that the French Government was discriminating un-fairly in favour of these companies, and certain Liverpoolmerchants, having made considerable private invest-ments in good faith, entered a protest which was waivedaside with a legal quibble. The matter was taken upby the British Foreign Office and in September, 1908,the merchants won their point. Kabinda is a small Portuguese possession north of themouth of the Kongo River, only three thousand squaremiles in area. It resembles in every way the coastregion of the Kongo. The chief town is Kabinda, aseaport. The colony is noted for its beauty and fertil-ity, and it is called the Paradise of the Coast; itsharbour is sheltered and c
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