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Title: The River Congo from its mouth to Bólobó; with a general description of the natural history and anthropology of its western basin
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: London, S. Low, Marston & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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dfuldegree that all comfort was out of the question, and I hadto take my meals as hastily as possible, stamping andswearing meanwhile at each successive bite; and withreason, for whether these mosquitoes were distinctlyvenomous, or whether my impoverished blood was easilypoisoned, either for one reason or the other every biteturned to an ulcer, so that my ankles and neck were in afew days covered with disagreeable little sores, remainingcomparatively painless, but quite incurable until I left thecoast of Africa. It was little use, even, on this occasionto seek shelter inside my mosquito-curtains, for somehowor other many blood-suckers contrived to enter, and I 140 A JOURNEY UP THE RIVER CONGO. passed a miserable night. The myriads of disappointedmosquitoes which remained outside kept up a continuousand sonorous humming, so irritating in its unvarying tone,that the occasional snorts and grunting of the hippopo-tami in the neighbouring grass-fields proved quite anagreeable interruption.
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W%0 Jt (W JBrazzayfll^ ( 141 ) CHAPTEE VIII. STANLEY POOL TO THE KWA RIVER. Native Canoes—Butterflies—Flora and Fauna of the River-banks— Banana-cooking—Ngui — Narrow Escape from aHippopotamus—The Birds—The Native Dogs—LieutenantJansskx—Msuata—A Bayansi Village—Native Hairdkess-jng—Personal Decoration—A Sacred Tree—MysteriousSlaves. Some extracts from the diary kept during my fortnightsvoyage up the river beyond Stanley Pool will perhapsmost exactly give the impressions made on me at thetime by the aspect of things on the Upper Congo. February 23rd, 1883.—I rose early, as soon as the leastdiffusion of cold light was observable, and left my bed andtent precipitately. The mosquitoes rendered ones toilet amaddening torture, and I was thankful to repair to theboat and eat some fried bananas there over a pleasantbook. As we left the great expansion of the Pool andentered the narrower Congo, the forest scenery becameextravagantly rich, and many vegetable wonder

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