# Land and peoples of the Kasai

Author: Hilton-Simpson, M. W. (Melville William), 1881-1938; Hardy, Norman H., 1863-1914 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76192

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Land+and+peoples+of+the+Kasai+Hilton-Simpson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

We left England on October 1, 1907, and proceeded to Matadi by a vessel belonging to the Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo. A journey to the mouth of the Congo by one of the three-weekly mail steamers from Antwerp is not one that would be undertaken solely for amusement; a few hours at La Palice (the port of La Rochelle in the Bay of Biscay), Santa Cruz de Teneriffe, Dakar in Senegal, Sierra Leone, and sometimes at Grand Bassam on the French Ivory Coast, are the only breaks in the monotony of a twenty-one days’ voyage, which in itself cannot be expected to be particularly cheerful when one remembers that the majority of the passengers are going out to spend three years’ service as officia...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/land-and-peoples-of-the-kasai-76192/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/land-and-peoples-of-the-kasai-76192/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/land-and-peoples-of-the-kasai-76192/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/land-and-peoples-of-the-kasai-76192/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/land-and-peoples-of-the-kasai-76192/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/land-and-peoples-of-the-kasai-76192/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/land-and-peoples-of-the-kasai-76192/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/land-and-peoples-of-the-kasai-76192/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/land-and-peoples-of-the-kasai-76192/chapters/9/index.md)