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Excerpt from The River Congo, From Its Mouth to Bolobo: With a General Description of the Natural History and Anthropology of Its Western Basin This remarkable development, which has taken place in what is after all only a small slice of my own lifetime, may interest some few of my readers in this old record of my experiences on the Congo at a time when Stanley's work was first beginning. I have left this record but little altered, preferring that the public should read the somewhat artless descriptions of a very young man, rather than a remodelled and more staid treatise which might lose its sense of actuality. I have, of course, cowefixah amobvious inaccuracies, and. Where it is useful I have added a little new matter written in the light of fuller knowledge, and I have also cut out most of the scientific appendices as being out of date and no longer necessary in the much fuller knowledge which prevails of the fauna and flora of the Congo Basin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.