The First Ascent of the Kasaï

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Excerpt from The First Ascent of the Kasaï: Being Some Records of Service Under the Lone Star At a time when so many narratives of African travel, adventure, and discovery are before the reading world, the appearance of a new volume, which must be classed with works of that description, undoubtedly demands some few words of apology and introduction. It is necessary, therefore, for me to explain that the following narrative, forming, in point of fact, a monograph on the Bashilange-Baluba nation, is the record of my later experiences in the service of the Congo State: a service which I had entered shortly before the A.I.A. obtained full political recognition in its consolidated form as the Free State of the Congo. Were my object in making public any portion of my African life merely the gratification of the love of adventure or of the marvellous, or were it the exhibition of myself as an actor in scenes of tragic incident, I should have selected for publication the story of the first few months of my service under the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.