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English: Herbert Lang, leader of Congo Expedition

Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo10amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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ACCOUNT OF THE MUSEUM'S CONGO EXPEDITION 14<)
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MR. HERBERT LANG LEADER OF CONGO EXPEDITION Mr. Lang, an expert in zoological survey and modern taxidermy, has had previous experience in Africa, having gone in from Mombasa on the East Coast in 1906 four centuries after the discovery of the river was it charted, that is, by Stanley in 1877. Latterly, conditions have wholly changed. There is now a lure for all nations in ivory, gold and rubber. The Arabs have been driven away and the slave trade abol- ished. Where formerly there was no way of transferring objects from Spain and Russia. It has been given over to fever and sleeping sickness, to raiding Arabs, and to ^•arious negro tribes \'ic- tims of slavery, and more or less cannibalistic in habit. It has neither sent out invitation nor given cordial greeting to the white man, who up to 1871 had not been more than one hundred and fifty miles from the coast. At that time no one knew whether the head waters of the Congo belonged to the Niger or to the Congo. Not till

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