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 trading relations with the Arabs. The riverain tracts are here thickly peopled, and some of the villages have thousands of inhabitants. But since the appearance of the Arabs most of them have been displaced, so that very few of those mentioned by Stanley can now be identified.

An island near the right bank below the seventh and last of the Stanley Falls

has been chosen by the International African Association as the site of its most advanced station in the interior. It occupies an excellent position at the extreme limit of the navigation of the Middle Congo, at the point where it begins to trend westwards and near the confluence of the large Lu-Keba (Mburu) affluent from the east. This place, which is known by the English name of Fall-Station, or Staniey Falls, was recently stormed, and its little garrison of Haussa and