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I have thus attempted to trace a picture of the Congo River in the latter days of the slave-trade, and of its lineal descendant, "L'Immigration Africaine." The people at large are satisfied, and the main supporters of the traffic the chiefs, the "medicine- men," and the white traders have at length been powerless to arrest its destruction.
The active sense, and the memory as well, appears to be in an exalted state of activity during this phase of hypnotism. Says M. Richet: "M , who will sing the air of the second act of the Africaine in her sleep, is incapable of remembering a single note of it when awake."
While he was yet working on the "Africaine", the hand of death interposed, and, at the cold touch, the pen was laid aside, the music-paper dropped unheeded on the floor, the piano was silent, and the composer left forever the scene of his labors and his triumphs. Few men might, at the last hour, be more justified in pleading, with earnest anxiety, "Not now! not now!"
He sent against me Hassan the Hilali, I went to meet him and said, 'Seize this wretched dog. These are the words of the Zoght Dyab ben Ghanem and the fire of illness was lighted in his breast." R. Basset. Un Episode d'une chanson de geste Arabe sur la seconde conquête de l'Afrique Septentrionale par les Mussulmans. Bulletin de Correspondence Africaine, p. 147. Alger, 1885, in 8vo.
Thy mouth insults the emerald and the diamond; thy saliva is a remedy against the malady; without doubt it is that which has cured me ." Joly, Poesie Arnaduno chez les Nomades Algeriennes. Revue Africaine, XLV, pp. 217-219. Alger, 1901, 8vo.
In 1876, when the Congo basin was still practically terra incognita, Stanley having just left Europe in order to determine the course of the stream, Leopold II founded the "Association Internationale Africaine."
"What do they say of me there?" asked Meyerbeer, after the first salutations. "They say, with regret, that you are just now as reticent as Rossini." "Indeed!" "Yet, after all, they add that you are busier than Rossini, for he is doing nothing, and you, at least, have an opera in your portfolio." "Ah! I see you are hinting about the 'Africaine'." "Yes, I refer to the 'Africaine'." "Bah! bah!
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