Identifier: adventuresinafri00thor (find matches)
Title: Adventures in Africa under the British, Belgian, and Portuguese flags, with map, diagrams, index and glossary
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Thornhill, John Bensley
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Publisher: London, Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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appreciated the 322 GOOD-BYE TO AFRICA words of the Bishop of Oxford. As I walked towhere I was lodging in Blackfriars and saw thewan, mirthless faces of the prostitutes in Picca-dilly, and the half-starved, wretched men andwomen on the Embankment sleeping in the openin the cold of a December night, I wished myLord of Oxford had been with me, and that Icould have shown him that the plight of thousandsof our own people was a hundred times worsethan that of the most ill-treated native in theCongo. We could see the motes in the Belgianseyes but not the beams in our own. True charitybegins at home. I talked to the Times people. I saw myfriend, the British Consul, who was home to undergoan operation. I read of the railway crossing theCongo border and learned with some satisfactionthat Bertholet had been dismissed. King Leopolddied ; but I did not return to Africa. I went toa country where the monopolist cannot have it allhis own way. HAUT LUAPULA ZONE OF KATANGA DISTRICT OF BELGIAN CONGO.
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INDEX AND GLOSSARY Achewa, correct name for the Yaos, q.v.Across Africa^ i66.Administration of N.W. Rhodesia, 17. — of Katanga, 308. Administrator, 9, 268. Advance, the, 8, 9. African Lakes Corporation (A. L. C), 25, 315-Albert Hall meeting, 321-2. Alhamid (authors cook), 10. Allen (manager, A.L.C.), 315- Amanzi a tunya (native namefor Victoria Falls), 5. Anderson (District Commissionerof Mumbwa, N.W.R.), 25. Anglo-Belgian Intertropical Trad-ing Company, 318. Angola, 36, 37, 180, 196. (Inset onMap.) — Trading and Transport Com- pany, 189.Anthrax, 283. Ants, 280,281. See also White ants.Arab slave raiders, 10.Arms, 2, 30-1, 200, 302.Atawa (Bantu race in N.W.R.), 175-6. — Swamp, 175-6. Austen & Fowler (traders inN.W.R.), 174,254,311-2. Baluba (Bantu race in Southern Congo), 61, 64, 94-5.Bantus. Africa has three distinct indigenous races — Bantus, Bushmen, and Negroes, 13, 189-90.Barotsi (Bantu race in N.W.R.), 8, 17.Barotsiland Native PoHce (B.N.P.), 5,9, 15,25,283. Base min

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