Word: congo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reign as Leopold III, and will be Belgium's fourth king. Leopold I (1790-1865) was of course Queen Victoria's "wise uncle Leopold." Leopold II (1835-1909) was an uncle of the present king, Albert I, and although notoriously dissolute, and the ruthless exploiter of the Congo, spent much of his ill-gotten wealth on public buildings and improvements in Belgium...
Eastman. At the age of 72, George ("Kodak") Eastman, of Rochester, N. Y., has been spending the summer photographing and shooting big game in Kenya, Tanganyika and the Belgian Congo. Near Nairobi natives chaired him on their shiny shoulders for slaying an eight-foot lion with two express bullets. Last fortnight came a letter from Explorer Carl E. Akeley, with the Eastman party and in charge of collections for the African Hall of the American Museum of Natural History, saying that the Kenya veld, once a hunter's paradise, is now stripped of fauna. "The unhappy remnant...
...contradiction or not, colloquial and affected, at the same time reminiscent of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, and yet this latest volume of his verse shows that he can still hit down at the root of things in the same manner that has made "General William Booth" and "The Congo" such favorites with both perspicuous readers and amateur reciters...
...After leaving Liberia we go south along the coast of Africa and strike in to the interior of the continent along the Congo river. This is the region where sleeping sickness is prevalent, and will thus be a field of particular interest...
Following its work in Liberia the party intends to sail south to the Belgian Congo and then procede by boat and foot through the interior of Africa, finally coming out at Membasa on the east coast. The whole expedition is expected to take nearly a year...