Richard Harding Davis
The Congo and Coasts of Africa
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664615510
Table of Contents
THE CONGO AND COASTS OF AFRICA
ILLUSTRATIONS
R. Davis and "Wood Boys" of the Congo Frontispiece
Mrs. Davis in a Borrowed "Hammock," The Local Means of Transport on the West Coast
A White Building, that Blazed Like the Base of a Whitewashed Stove at White Heat
The "Mammy Chair" is Like Those Swings You See in Public Playgrounds
"Tenants" of Leopold, Who Claims that the Congo Belongs to Him, and that these Native People are there only as His Tenants
The Facilities for Landing At Banana, the Port of Entry to the Congo, are Limited
"Prisoners" of the State in Chains at Matadi
Bush Boys in the Plaza at Matadi Seeking Shade
The Monument in Stanley Park, Erected, Not to Stanley, but to Leopold
The Deliverance. The River Raced over the Deck to a Depth of Four or Five Inches. Between Her Cabin and the Wood-pile, were Stored Fifty Human Beings
The Native Wife of a Chef de Poste
English Missionaries, and Some of Their Charges
The Laboring Man Upon Whom the American Concessionaires Must Depend
Mr. Davis and Native "Boy," on the Kasai River
The Hippopotamus that Did Not Know He Was Dead
The Jesuit Brothers at the Wombali Mission
There, in the Surf, We Found These Tons of Mahogany, Pounding against Each Other
A Log of Mahogany Jammed in the Anchor Chains
The Palace of the King of the Cameroons
The Home of the Thirty Queens of King Mango Bell
The Mother Superior and Sisters of St. Joseph and Their Converts at Old Calabar
The Kroo Boys Sit, not on the Thwarts, but on the Gunwales, as a Woman Rides a Side Saddle
Going Visiting in Her Private Tram-car at Beira
One-half of the Street Cleaning Department of Mozambique
Custom House, Zanzibar
Chain-gangs of Petty Offenders Outside of Zanzibar
The Ivory on the Right, Covered only with Sacking, is Ready for Shipment to Boston, U.S.A.
The Late Sultan of Zanzibar in His State Carriage
H.S.H. Hamud bin Muhamad bin Said, the Late Sultan of Zanzibar
A German "Factory" at Tanga, the Store Below, the Living Apartments Above
Soudanese Soldiers under a German Officer Outside of Tanga
THE CONGO AND COASTS OF AFRICA
I
THE COASTERS
No matter how often one sets out, "for to admire, and for to see, for to behold this world so wide," he never quite gets over being surprised at the erratic manner in which "civilization" distributes itself; at the way it ignores one spot upon the earth's surface, and upon another, several thousand miles away, heaps its blessings and its tyrannies. Having settled in a place one might suppose the "influences of civilization" would first be felt by the people nearest that place. Instead of which, a number of men go forth in a ship and carry civilization as far away from that spot as the winds will bear them.
When a stone falls in a pool each part of each ripple is equally distant from the spot where the stone fell; but if the stone of civilization were to have fallen,