Africa and its inhabitants . stream, and connect with this funda-mental route all subsequent surveys made iu the region of the Congo and itsaffluents. In this work are now engaged a host of explorers and the obs<«^^•e^cenviius almost overwhelmed with the great results obtained within the brief 41-1 WEST AFRICA. space of twelve years since Stanley sailed down the Lua-Laba and found it theCongo. The eastern slope of Lake Tanganyika has already been visited by a verylarge number of white travellers, traders, and missionaries, and the journev haseven been made by a lady, Mrs. Annie B. Hore, in
Africa and its inhabitants . stream, and connect with this funda-mental route all subsequent surveys made iu the region of the Congo and itsaffluents. In this work are now engaged a host of explorers and the obs<«^^•e^cenviius almost overwhelmed with the great results obtained within the brief 41-1 WEST AFRICA. space of twelve years since Stanley sailed down the Lua-Laba and found it theCongo. The eastern slope of Lake Tanganyika has already been visited by a verylarge number of white travellers, traders, and missionaries, and the journev haseven been made by a lady, Mrs. Annie B. Hore, in a bath-chair. Houses in theEuropean stjle have sprung up on its shores, and its waters have been navigatedby steam. South-west of Tanganyika, geographical triumphs have been lessbrilliant, although even here Livingstones routes have been crossed and com-pleted by those of Girauld, Bohm, and Reichardt. Towards the west, Cameron, Fig. 202.—Congo Basin as teaced by Stan-ley after cbossino the Continent. Scale l:23, Casb of Green^^ich . 600 Miles. who in 1874 had discovered the emissary of the lake to the Upper Congo, alsoexplored others of its headstreams, and crossed the divide between the Congoand the Zambese, being the first of modern travellers to complete the journeyacross the continent, from Zanzibar on the Indian to Benguella 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 comm
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