Word: congo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nagelmackers of Brussels and Liege. He had visited the U. S. in the '60s and confessed himself "frappe" (struck) by "les services de wagons-lits" already operating there. Returning to Belgium, he enlisted the financial aid of such potent backers as the late King Leopold II (of Belgian Congo infamy) and founded the original Wagons-Lits firm in 1873. Previously he had begun and he continued all his life negotiations with the states of Europe, touching the installation and operation on their lines of his sleeping cars...
Thirty years ago, at her home in Havana, Mme. Rosalie Abreu began to collect live monkeys. She kept them in cages but under conditions as close as possible to nature. She brought chimpanzees from the Congo and from Sierra Leone. In Borneo her collectors caught the rare black ape-Mme. Abreu's is the only live one in any collection. From Gibraltar came a Barbary ape, the only native European monkey. Africa and South America contributed lion monkeys. Thumbless spider monkeys swing merrily from the trees in this private zoo. In all, there are now 130 monkeys representing...
...Century Spanish town and is the oldest European settlement in the Western Hemisphere. Toussaint L'Ouverture, "The Black Bolivar," won Haitian independence from Emperor Napoleon. Today the U. S. maintains a nebulous protectorate to check the once incessant revolutions at Port au Prince, Haiti. In back country Haiti are congo folk, who practice voodoo rites. Columbus discovered the island and named it "Hispaniola," (Espagnola) Little Spain...
...Central Africa, west of the Congo River, was visited by a strange terror-Dr. James P. Chapin, associate curator of birds of the American Museum of Natural History. Little monkeys chattered and cried to one another in the treetops that the white-faced hunter had taken 2,500 lives out of feathery, furry bodies to stuff them with dead, hard matter. From the green lowlands, Dr. Chapin started up the side of a glacial mountain of the Ruwenzori Range. In sight of snow, 50 miles from the equator, his blackamoors, convinced that the strange whiteness was the touch of death...
Although Professor Graton will visit mines in all of these regions the Shaler award, is specifically for the study of copper deposits in the Belgian Congo and Rhodesia. The work in South Africa, however, will constitute only a small part of Professor Graton's extensive survey which comprises visits to every mine in the world over a mile deep and which takes in most of South America as well as Africa and certain spots in India and England...