The Congo and Coasts of Africa

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Richard Harding Davis's The Congo and Coasts of Africa includes illustrations from photographs by the author and others. The account describes the church in Santa Cruz as a place where relics of the sea-fight in which Nelson lost his arm as a young man are stored.

The account explains that flat straw hats in Teneriffe support baskets and buckets of water, with a heavy pad concealed inside each hat. The discussion of the Congo asks why rich men should join Leopold and imagines the same men freeing the people and opening the country to world trade. The description of Dar Es Salaam praises the residences for ventilation and sanitation, while acknowledging that the settlement lacks one thing needed to make it a model.

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Richard Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis was an American reporter, fiction writer, and playwright whose energetic accounts helped define the public image of the foreign correspondent at the turn of the twentieth century.