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2023.055.3.0064Description
Sepia tone stereograph. Image is of a group of ben carying logs across a river, in the midground are several large logs that a group of men are in the process of cutting up, in the background is a hill with a few structures sitting a top it. In the top right corner of the backing "S 82" is stamped. Above the image "93" is printed. Below the image "9953 - Lukolela Wood Post, a new river settlement almost on the equator, Congo Free State. Copyright Underwood & Underwood. U-96235." is printed. To the left of the image "Underwood & Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Outawa-Kansas" is printed. To the right of the image "Works & Studios Arlington, N.J. Westwood N.J." is printed.
On the reverse the following is printed:
9953. Geography. - This lumber and fuel station for river steamers lies between Bolobo and Irebu on the main Congo, four days' journey from Leopoldville. It is just below the equator, and is distinguished as being one of Stanley's original establishments, twenty-three years ago. To the east lies Lake Leopold II.
Physiography. - Lukolela Wood Post is a cut in the tropical foest. A fine slope leads from a level terrace to whe water edge. The river, eight miles wide at Irebu, has here narrowed to about a mile in its course throught the "Chenal" which ends at Stanley Pool.
Transportation. - From the upper slope one would get a view of the camp operations. The great logs on the bank have been hewn from the virgin forest and are waiting transporation. This lumber must be carried by the workmen, for draught animals are practically unknown here. We see several men fording the stram here with bundles of fuel for the steamer's boiler.
People. - We find here people of the Babangi tribe. We might not enjoy a very intimate acquaintance, but they certainly are picturesque. A few minutes' exploration on shore might bring us into the presence of a formidable individual dressed in grass-fibre clothes. But his imposing article of attire is an iron collar, weighing twenty pounds. Moreover, his body is red with generously applied camwood paint. His head and beard are shaved and his eyebrows and lashes are plucked out. A native of this tribe whose eyelashes are not extracted is dubbed "hairy eyes."
(In italics) Refer again to this view when considering Zone Life, Agriculture, Races of Mankind.
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Lukolela Wood Post, a river settlement.
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