the reader to discover a section of the
one-time Dark Continent without the hardships which I experienced.

I. F. M.

NEW YORK, _April, 1921_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. SMUTS 15

II. "CAPE-TO-CAIRO" 57

III. RHODES AND RHODESIA 103

IV. THE CONGO TODAY 139

V. ON THE CONGO RIVER 177

VI. AMERICA IN THE CONGO 225

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

King Albert _Frontispiece_

Groote Schuur _facing page_ 28

General J. C. Smuts 44

Mr. Marcosson's Route in Africa 56

Cecil Rhodes 76

The Premier Diamond Mine 90

Victoria Falls 102

Cultivating Citrus Land in Rhodesia 110

The Grave of Cecil Rhodes 132

A Katanga Copper Mine 138

Lord Leverhulme 144

Robert Williams 144

On the Lualaba 150

A View on the Kasai 150

A Station Scene at Kongola 156

A Native Market at Kindu 162

Native Fish Traps at Stanley Falls 168

The Massive Bangalas 176

Congo Women in State Dress 176

Central African Pygmies 182

Women Making Pottery 190

The Congo Pickaninny 190

The Heart of the Equatorial Forest 198

Natives Piling Wood 204

A Wood Post on the Congo 204

Residential Quarters at Alberta 210

The Comte de Flandre 210

A Typical Oil Palm Forest 216

Bringing in the Palm Fruit 216

A Specimen of Cicatrization 220

A Sankuru Woman Playing Native Draughts 220

The Belgian Congo 224

Thomas F. Ryan 228

Jean Jadot 236

Emile Francqui 242

A Belle of the Congo 246

Women of the Batetelas 246

Fishermen on the Sankuru 254