. The story of Africa and its explorers. the Peace added greatly to OUl know- ledge of the northern tri- butaries of the Congo. The Lefini River (the Lawson of. E\()LUT10N OJ A MISSION-HdUSK AT LUK() hii l;A, CDMiO. No. 1 (a Native Hut); 2 and 3 were successively utilised as kitchen, stoi-es, etc.; No. 4, final stage. (From riiotographs hy the Rev. H. D. Darhij) 126 THE STORY OF AFRICA. Stanley) was found to be only navigablefor two or three miles, when it became a torrent. The Nkenye, or Nkie, isBive^^ ^ small, tortuous stream, with a mean breadth of sixty yards, adepth of twelve feet, and a
. The story of Africa and its explorers. the Peace added greatly to OUl know- ledge of the northern tri- butaries of the Congo. The Lefini River (the Lawson of. E\()LUT10N OJ A MISSION-HdUSK AT LUK() hii l;A, CDMiO. No. 1 (a Native Hut); 2 and 3 were successively utilised as kitchen, stoi-es, etc.; No. 4, final stage. (From riiotographs hy the Rev. H. D. Darhij) 126 THE STORY OF AFRICA. Stanley) was found to be only navigablefor two or three miles, when it became a torrent. The Nkenye, or Nkie, isBive^^ ^ small, tortuous stream, with a mean breadth of sixty yards, adepth of twelve feet, and a current of 220or 250 feet per minute. The Mobangi(Oubangi) is, however, one of the noblestof Congo tributaries. After following itfrom the spot where it forms a delta betweentwenty-six and forty-two miles south of theequator to 4^ 30 N., nearly 400 miles fromits mouth, where Mr. Grenfell left it, just belowthe second rapids, it was still an open waterway,about 670 yards broad, with a mean depth oftwenty-five feet, and carrying an immensevolume of water, which it collected by endlesstributaries rising in the Niam-Niam countryand the watershed between the
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