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Show L i ii ' '' " H WHITE MEN ON THE CONGO. They flam Incrent! Pnnrfnli! Within llin 2t Iftw Yenra. Tho vvhlto populntdm on tho Congo la Increasing rapidly. WIhti Manley left tho river, nftcr having planted bin twenty Ktntlons, there were only nliout tun hundred while men left to con-tintio con-tintio tln vnrloiiH pliiiM'Mif bis work Tliero nro now, wiyn the New Ynik Hun, over eight hundred white men nn the Congo Ovit one-third of tli"iiini' in tho bcrvlco of tho Congo r.tnle, whil" tho other nro rngnged in trndimr nnd inl&stounry rnter,"irlse In JMs'i llnma. tho cnpilnl of t)u Free state, i ontnincd tho girateit number of whites, but Inst year it was Mirpisscd by Mnt.idl, which at tho head of navigation on the lower Congo Matadi ha", gone abend because It l the starting point of the Congo railroad, and movtof the whiles Hi thnt place nro cng.iged in building the road Mntadl now ha, n white population of one hundred and sixty nine miuK while Homn has ten less lloma 1 the stent ot government, nnd also the pine where anumlier of importnnt European trading firm inalte their headqu irlera. 1 1 lias a railroad leading from the wharf up to the sanitarium, the hotel, nud the government building on the height t mvav from the rlrer With it i m-dd-er.iblo nnllvu population and the Hio variety of business trnnr. icted then-lloma then-lloma is a very bmty little- place I.ennnlilvUle. thr chief fiettlement nn the upper river nt Stanley Pool, hut ulghly-two white '1 here nre only lit teen Americans on tho river, nearly till of whom tro missionaries Thirl, tn i Danes nnd Swede nro among the em ployr of the Congo state anH nl most to a man they are engig. i in the htenmboat service, manv rd them 1), n; engineers The MMr-thm Italnn. on tho river nre nt work on therm ad They were taken f rom fcouthern Ilalv, because the climate there ts warm, and It was thought they would endure hard service in Africa better than workmen from north Europe They are bosses or section hands, who teach th natlvu track grader hov to perfirm then Inbor, and they superintend the work nftcu taking a hand thcmselvr to show tho natives how the work should be done The forty-flvo Egyptians are soldiers Imported from Egypt for the purposo of setting a good military example to the iiatlio oldlery organized by the state. Half tho Egyptians nre in tho garrison nt lloma, and the other htilf arc nt I.copoldvlllc Ilnuann. tho settlement nt the mouth of tho Congo, has now n population of only eighty-three whites, nnd has been surpassed by Leopoldvillo in tho in. terlor There uro now more white men nt each of hnlf a dozen pi.ts nn the upper up-per Congo than there vvcro nt Leopold-vllle, Leopold-vllle, thu chief point on the ilvci, live years ngo. White men on tho Congo aic finding that with tho Introduction of more comforts com-forts from Europe, with a supply of better food on their tables, nnd with medical attendance at a number of tho more Important stations, they ouu live on the river in far better health tltin n few yeurs ngo Tho mortality now thnt tho river ha n w hlte population of over eight hundred people Is hardly greater than It was llvo years ngo, when only about two hundred white men lived there. |