d and under the
command of General Tambeur, who is now Vice-Governor General of the
Katanga, co-operated with the British throughout the entire East African
campaign. The Belgians captured Tabora, one of the German strongholds,
and helped to clear the Teuton out of the country.

Lake Tanganyika was the scene of one of the most brilliant and
spectacular naval battles of the war. Two British motor launches, which
were conveyed in sections all the way from England, sank a German
gunboat and disabled another, thus purging those waters of the German.
The lake was of great strategic importance for the transport of food and
munitions for the Allied troops in German East Africa. It is one of the
loveliest inland bodies of water in the world for it is fringed with
wooded heights and is navigable throughout its entire length of four
hundred miles. Ujiji, on its eastern shore, is the memorable spot where
Stanley found Livingstone. The house where the illustrious missionary
lived still stands, and is an object of veneration both for black and
white visitors.

From Kabalo I proceeded to Kongolo, where navigation on the Lualaba
temporarily ends. It is the usual Congo settlement with the official
residence of the Commissaire of the District, office of the Native
Commissioner, and a dozen stores. It is also the southern rail-head of
the Chemin de Fer Grands Lacs, which extends to Stanleyville. Early in
the morning I boarded what looked to me like a toy train, for it was
tinier than any I had ever seen before, and started for Kindu. The
journey occupies two days and traverses a highly Arabized section.

Back in the days when Tippo Tib, the friend of Stanley, was king of the
Arab slave traders, this area was his hunting ground. Many of the
natives are Mohammedans and wear turbans and long flowing robes. Their
cleanliness is in sharp contrast with the lack of sanitary precautions
observed by the average unclothed native. The only blacks who wash every
day in the Congo are those who live on the rivers. The favorite method
of cleansing in the bush country is to scrape off a week's or a month's
accumulation of mud with a stick or a piece of glass.

In the Congo the trains, like the boats, stop for the night. Various
causes are responsible for the procedure. In the early days of
railroading elephants and other wild animals frequently tore up the
tracks. Another contributory reason is that the carriages are only built
for day travel. Nativ