. 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 . FROM THE COAST TO THE SANKURU 15 the French shore. Owing to the large wooded islandknown as Bomu, and to the presence of numerous grassyislets and sandbanks, one could get no real view of StanleyPool from the deck of the steamer; indeed it is only as oneapproaches the point where the Congo enters it that onegets any idea of the width of the Pool, and even here, asone looks to the southward, one does not see this beautifulst
. 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 . FROM THE COAST TO THE SANKURU 15 the French shore. Owing to the large wooded islandknown as Bomu, and to the presence of numerous grassyislets and sandbanks, one could get no real view of StanleyPool from the deck of the steamer; indeed it is only as oneapproaches the point where the Congo enters it that onegets any idea of the width of the Pool, and even here, asone looks to the southward, one does not see this beautifulstretch of water at its greatest width. From north to souththe greatest width is about sixteen miles, and the length ofthe Pool from east to west about seventeen. In the olddays the island of Bomu was a noted haunt of buffaloes,elephants, and numerous herds of hippopotami, but theguns of the Bateke, who shot these animals as food for thewhite men and the garrison, have long since exterminatedthem, and save for some crocodiles, and I believe anoccasional hippopotamus, the only inhabitants of the islandand the sandbanks around it are numerous eagles and water-fowl. On a
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