Word: congo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rarest and most recent additions to the College Library's collection of Contadina have been placed on exhibition in the display cases of the Treasure Room, where they will remain for several weeks. Two small notebooks in which Conrad kept a diary of his trip up the Congo River into the center of Africa in 1890, his first manuscript of the early chapters of "Lord Jim", and a silver match box, which he carried a great part of his life, complete the display. A small pamphlet containing notes on the diaries by Richard Curle, close friend and secretary to Conrad...
...notebooks contains a day by day account of the first half of the Congo expedition, and the second is filled with hastily sketched maps and technical descriptions of the navigation of the river. Conrad has left no account of the last half of the journey which carried him to the darkest part of Africa and to his meeting with the "Kurtz" of the "Heart of Darkness...
...House a marionnette show and now crushes the unimportant member, have never existed. To the Senate, every president, each secretary of state have submitted their treaties in fear and trembling. Even minor treaties are subject to arduous Senatorial scrutiny. Mrs. Lowry cites the fate of one concerning the Congo Free State. When the Senate finally ratified it, it "was so bedeviled as to its verbiage that it might have been an extract from a Delaware traction charter". Secretary of State Hay re-read it and stated that "he was going to have it parsed by a commission of grammarians...
...rest of the exhibit consists of two small notebooks, describing a journey in the Congo during June and July, 1890. One contains notes of a march neross country with perters and native guides. The other tells of a trip by boat on the Congo River. Of unusual interest in the second notebook are the precise directions given for passing from point to point. How suags and shoals are to be avoided is also clearly set forth. Both books are in the anthor's own hand...
...have subscribed for a friend, Rev. A. Hoyt Miller, A. P. C. M., Bibanga, Kabinda, Lomami District, Congo Beige, Africa, via Cape Town, and I should like to request the same service...