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 to her imposts being more reasonable than those of the Free State.

I will not here attempt to go further into the political side of de Brazza's journey and its attendant conquests for France, but will pass on to his return journey to the Coast.



He left a Senegal sergeant and a few men at Brazzaville and proceeded to explore a new route from the Stanley Pool to the sea. This was by the valley of the N'Duo, which empties itself into the Niari and leads from Ntamo to the Atlantic in a nearly due westerly direction. He thought this would