Flooded forest near Wesso - Public domain book illustration

Flooded forest near Wesso
Identifier: fromcongotoniger02adoluoft (find matches)
Title: From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile : an account of The German Central African expedition of 1910-1911
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Adolf Friedrich, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1873-1969 Deutsche Zentral-Afrika-expedition, 1910-1911
Subjects: Africa, Central -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Duckworth
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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96. Basanga women with leg-rings. X
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FROM STANLEYPOOL TO MOLUNDU 89 Mokutimpoko, where we spent the night of the 27thof October, we were shown a large mound composedof elephant skulls, a dumb but eloquent protest againstthe brutal extermination of these animals by man. The travellers attention is drawn to the colour ofthe Congo, which is deeper than that of any otherAfrican river. The peculiar brown tint of the waterwhich may be observed at the mouth of this hugeriver, and even for several hundred miles out to sea,is caused by vegetable decomposition in the primevalforests at the origin of the numerous branches whichunite to form the Congo. Here and there it happensthat for some distance the water is thick and resembles cafe au lait owing to earthy ingredients brought bysome tributary. Soon, however, the mud is filtered offby the floating islands or by the stony bed, and the waterbecomes quite clear, of a dark tea colour : red-brownwhere it is shallow, dark brown where it is deeper,and almost black in the deepest parts.