I take a two-day trip of 200 miles by rail, then four days by boat up the Kasai and then I may come back by boat or walk.

It depends on how I like it, how long I stay, for I can hope to see very little, as under a year it would be impossible to write with authority of this country.

But I'll see more of it than some at home, and I'll hear what those who have lived here for years have to say.

It is awfully interesting, absolutely different and more uncivilized than anything I ever saw.

But all the time you are depressed with how little you know and can know of it.