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So
it
will
now
be
understood
how
terrible
were
those
words
just
pronounced
by
Dick
Sand
.
"
Africa
!
Equatorial
Africa
!
Africa
of
slave-traders
and
slaves
!
"
And
he
was
not
deceived
;
it
was
Africa
with
all
its
dangers
,
for
his
companions
and
for
himself
.
But
on
what
part
of
the
African
continent
had
an
inexplicable
fatality
landed
him
?
Evidently
on
the
western
coast
,
and
as
an
aggravating
circumstance
,
the
young
novice
was
forced
to
think
that
the
"
Pilgrim
"
was
thrown
on
precisely
that
part
of
the
coast
of
Angola
where
the
caravans
,
which
clear
all
that
part
of
Africa
,
arrive
.
In
fact
it
was
there
.
It
was
that
country
which
Cameron
on
the
south
and
Stanley
on
the
north
were
going
to
cross
a
few
years
later
,
and
at
the
price
of
what
efforts
!
Of
this
vast
territory
,
which
is
composed
of
three
provinces
,
Benguela
,
Congo
,
and
Angola
,
there
was
but
little
known
then
except
the
coast
.
It
extends
from
the
Nourse
,
in
the
south
,
as
far
as
the
Zaire
in
the
north
,
and
the
two
principal
towns
form
two
ports
,
Benguela
and
St.
Paul
'
de
Loanda
,
the
capital
of
the
colony
which
set
off
from
the
kingdom
of
Portugal
.
In
the
interior
this
country
was
then
almost
unknown
.
Few
travelers
had
dared
to
venture
there
.
A
pernicious
climate
,
warm
and
damp
lands
,
which
engender
fevers
,
barbarous
natives
,
some
of
whom
are
still
cannibals
,
a
permanent
state
of
war
between
tribes
,
the
slave-traders
'
suspicion
of
every
stranger
who
seeks
to
discover
the
secrets
of
their
infamous
commerce
;
such
are
the
difficulties
to
surmount
,
the
dangers
to
overcome
in
this
province
of
Angola
,
one
of
the
most
dangerous
of
equatorial
Africa
.
Tuckey
,
in
1816
,
had
ascended
the
Congo
beyond
the
Yellala
Falls
;
but
over
an
extent
of
two
hundred
miles
at
the
most
.
This
simple
halting-place
could
not
give
a
definite
knowledge
of
the
country
,
and
nevertheless
,
it
had
caused
the
death
of
the
greater
part
of
the
savants
and
officers
who
composed
the
expedition
.
Thirty-seven
years
later
,
Dr.
Livingstone
had
advanced
from
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope
as
far
as
the
upper
Zambesi
.
Thence
,
in
the
month
of
November
,
with
a
hardihood
which
has
never
been
surpassed
,
he
traversed
Africa
from
the
south
to
the
northwest
,
cleared
the
Coango
,
one
of
the
branches
of
the
Congo
,
and
on
the
31st
of
May
,
1854
,
arrived
at
St.
Paul
de
Loanda
.
It
was
the
first
view
in
the
unknown
of
the
great
Portuguese
Colony
.
Eighteen
years
after
,
two
daring
discoverers
crossed
Africa
from
the
east
to
the
west
,
and
arrived
,
one
south
,
the
other
north
,
of
Angola
,
after
unheard-of
difficulties
.
The
first
,
according
to
the
date
,
was
a
lieutenant
in
the
English
navy
,
Verney-Howet
Cameron
.
In
1872
,
there
was
reason
to
fear
that
the
expedition
of
the
American
,
Stanley
,
was
in
great
danger
.
It
had
been
sent
to
the
great
lake
region
in
search
of
Livingstone
.
