Africa and its inhabitants . STANLEY FALLS. •103 Below Nyangwo follow other cannibal communities, which maintained directtrading relations with the Arabs. The riverain tracts are hero thickly peopled,and some of the villages have thousands of inhabitants. Eut after the appear-ance of the Arabs most of them were displaced, so that very few of those men-tioned by Stanley can now be identified. An island near the right bank below the seventh and last of llie iSlunley Falls Fig. 23o.—Tjndeu Chief of Iboko and Head Chief op the Ba-Noaij*.. was chosen in the year 1885 as a convenient site for nn Adv
Africa and its inhabitants . STANLEY FALLS. •103 Below Nyangwo follow other cannibal communities, which maintained directtrading relations with the Arabs. The riverain tracts are hero thickly peopled,and some of the villages have thousands of inhabitants. Eut after the appear-ance of the Arabs most of them were displaced, so that very few of those men-tioned by Stanley can now be identified. An island near the right bank below the seventh and last of llie iSlunley Falls Fig. 23o.—Tjndeu Chief of Iboko and Head Chief op the Ba-Noaij*.. was chosen in the year 1885 as a convenient site for nn Advanced station in theinterior. It occupies an excellent position at the extreme limit of the navi-gation of the Middle Congo, at the point where it begins to trend wesIwunKand near the confluence of the large L«;a (Mburu) allhu-nl fnm. the c« place, which is known bv ihe name of Falf-Stolio,,. or Stontr,, stormed in 188G, and its little garrison of Haus8a and Bu--Nga!u NegTO«s 4tii WESr AFRICA. with their European officers, either massacred or put to flight by the Arab slave-hunters. The small European station of Ba-Soko, on the right bank of the Aruwimi atits confluence with the Congo, had also to be abandoned for motives of order effectively to protect trade in the Aruwimi basin, it would be absolutelynecessary to maintain a strong garrison at Tamhuya; and here Stanley establisheda camp to keep open his communications during his expedition to the relief ofEmin Bey. This expeditio
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