. Land and peoples of the Kasai; being a narrative of a two years' journey among the cannibals of the equatorial forest and other savage tribes of the south-western Congo . train to sellpine-apples and bananas, but these people all belonged tothe semi-civilised class of negro who possesses but littleinterest to any one who wishes to study the African apartfrom the influence of European manners and customs. At about three in the afternoon of the second daythe train drew up at Kinshasa, on the banks of StanleyPool, and we alighted. We had arranged to be conveyedfrom Stanley Pool to Dima, the hea
. Land and peoples of the Kasai; being a narrative of a two years' journey among the cannibals of the equatorial forest and other savage tribes of the south-western Congo . train to sellpine-apples and bananas, but these people all belonged tothe semi-civilised class of negro who possesses but littleinterest to any one who wishes to study the African apartfrom the influence of European manners and customs. At about three in the afternoon of the second daythe train drew up at Kinshasa, on the banks of StanleyPool, and we alighted. We had arranged to be conveyedfrom Stanley Pool to Dima, the headquarters of theKasai Company, in one of the companys steamers, whichvessels always stop at Kinshasa to unload their cargo andtake up merchandise from the railway, so we did notproceed direct to the rail-head at Leopoldville, but spenta couple of nights in Kinshasa in the house of a Portu-guese trader, who lodges such travellers as belong to nocompany, and therefore have no house to go to, for, asI have said, hotels do not exist in Kinshasa; all the bigup-river companies, however, have their forwarding-agentsresident there, and these provide lodgings for their other. The Cong,) railway.
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