Date. Character of Rain. H. IT. Hours per
Month. ---------
Mar. 12 . Slight Showery . 3 0
„ '2 0 . Violent rainstorm 2 0
24 . i f i f 4 0
„ 26 . a m '• 1 0
„ 27 . Showery....................... 3 0
„ 28 i 2 0 > Leopoldville..
15-00
April 2 . Violent rainstorm . 2 30
„ 4 . Slight shower . 1 30
„ 18 . Light rain . . . . 2 0
„ 20 . Violent rain and storm. .8 .0
„ 26 . ) J ) f >• 7 0
„ 27 . » » -• 4 0
'25-00 Between,.
• . Leopoldville and
May 3 . Light rain . . . . 2 0 Kwa River.
„ 4 . Heavy rain . . . .4 0
„ 5 . Light rain . . . 3 0
9-00.
G en EE a l M e t e o r o l o g ic a l T a b l e .
Rainfall by ¡ E j j
Time. ijy Time,
« r o i i!^ Hours.
Rainfall
in
Inches.
Winds. '
MeanVelocity
in Miles'
per day of
24 hours.
•Winds frojn
Westerly
direction."
Annual
Temperature,
Fahrenheit.
Mean
Highest. •
Annual
Temperature*
Fahrenheit.
Mean
Lowest.
Mean
Annual
Variation.
1880-81
1881-82
. 80 281 451
. 59250 35 j 411 125 ;
Per cent
. 90
o
.90
o
67!
' 0
25
jk
. 14 l i
CHAPTER XXXYII.
THE KERNEL OF THE ARGUMENT.
Extent of the Congo River—-Navigable stretches—The maritime region—
The mountain region—Elevations, vegetation, and productions—
Population—Interior basin of the Upper Congo: its extent and
altitudes—Navigability of the tributaries—Tables of mileage of
navigable waters—Area drained by. the rivers—Tables of population
of Upper Congo section—Opinions of Dr. Pogge and Lieut. Weiss-
man, Tippu Tib, and Dr. Schweinfurth—The products of the land—
Vegetable and animal richness—Minerals—Extent of theWebb-Lua-
laba section—Navigability of the Webb-Lualaba—Characteristics of
the Lualaba country—Livingstone’s descriptions—The Tanganika
territory—TJj'iji markets—Table of the actual knowledge of the Congo
basin: its area and population—Possibilities of trade—Table of the
value of African produce in Liverpool—Prospects of factories—
Advantages of a railway—Efforts to civilise Equatorial Africa—Com-
parison with other countries—Its future development and greatness:
The Congo River is over 3000 statute miles in The Kernel
length, measured as follows: From the Atlantic Argument,
ocean in a navigable length of 110 miles, as far as
the station of Yivi, thence upward to Isangila, the:
lower series of the Livingstone Falls, 50 miles; from
Isangila to Manyanga we have a tolerably navig’able
stretch of 88 miles;- between Manyanga and Leopoldville
is the upper series of Livingstone Falls,
along a length of 85 miles; from Leopoldville up