Africa and its inhabitants . on the AtlanticOcean. Others, such as Wissraann, Grieerup, and Oscar Lenz have since traversed theCongo basin, also crossing from sea to sea, while on the western slope nearh allthe Congo affluents have been ascended as far as navigable. Mechow, PjiittnerTappenbeck, and Massari have surveyed the Kwango basin; Wissmann, DeFrancois and Grenfell have studied the couise of the Kassai, which, with its EXPLOEATIOX OF THE COXGO BASIN. 415 affluent the Sankuru, and sub-affluent the Lo-Maini, offers the most direct routefrom the Lower to the Upper Congo. Pierre de Brazza ha
Africa and its inhabitants . on the AtlanticOcean. Others, such as Wissraann, Grieerup, and Oscar Lenz have since traversed theCongo basin, also crossing from sea to sea, while on the western slope nearh allthe Congo affluents have been ascended as far as navigable. Mechow, PjiittnerTappenbeck, and Massari have surveyed the Kwango basin; Wissmann, DeFrancois and Grenfell have studied the couise of the Kassai, which, with its EXPLOEATIOX OF THE COXGO BASIN. 415 affluent the Sankuru, and sub-affluent the Lo-Maini, offers the most direct routefrom the Lower to the Upper Congo. Pierre de Brazza has o])ened the navigationof tlie Alima, which has already become a busy commercial highway ; Jacque deBrazza, Dolisie, Ponel, Yan Gele, and Grenfell have penetrated from oppositesides into the Nkheni, Li-Kwalla, Bunga, and U-Banghi valleys ; the same inde-fatigable Grenfell has ascended the Tchuapa, the Ikelcmb;., the Lu-Lougo, theMungala, and the Itimbiri. Fig. 203.—CoNoo Basin 1887. Scale 1: •24,000, Since 1887 numerous explorers have aso traversed the .ectionof the Congo , which of all others offers the greatest . which will probably one day prove to be the most ,rtaut, for hero .s !the water-parting between the Nile and Congo basins. The whole course of the Welle has now been followed throu,^h I ^ the tnain stream, while the way to the White Nile by this has ..readybeen opened by the Belgian military expeditions to Lado. and by M. Murohand .journey, in 1898, to Fashoda above Khartum. , , 1 f ,»,„ ThLks to Junkers surveys, a rough calculation may already 1. made .^ .heactual extent of this vast fluvial system, which according .0 .. 416 WEST AFRICA. about 1,630,000 square miles. But the elements even for a remotely approximateestimate of the population are still lacking. From the accounts, however, ofvarious explorers, who have visited many thickly peopled
Size: 1595px × 1566px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthor, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectethnology
