l'immigration

Updated: July 5, 2026

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.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2