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LEOPOLD II

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 462 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LEOPOLD (M.H. Ger. Liupolt; O.H. Ger. Liupald, from hut, Mod. Ger. Leute, " people," and paid, " bold," i.e. " bold for the people ")

LEOPOLD II ., a See also:

lake of Central See also:

Africa in the See also:

basin of the See also:

KASAI, or CASSAI

Kasai affluent of the See also:

CONGO

Congo, cut by 2° S. and 18° 1o' E. It has a length N. to S. of about 75 m., is 30 M. across at its See also:

NORTHERN

northern end, tapering towards its See also:

SOUTHERN

southern end. Numerous bays and gulfs render its outline highly irregular. Its shores are See also:

FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat and marshy, the lake being (in all See also:

PROBABILITY (Lat. probabilis, probable or credible)

probability) simply the lowest See also:

PART

part of a vast lake which existed here before the Kasai See also:

SYSTEM

system breached the barrier—at Kwa mouth—separating it from the Congo. The lake is fed by the Lokoro (about 300 M. See also:

long) and smaller streams from the See also:

east. Its northern and western affluents are comparatively unimportant. It discharges its See also:

WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters (at its southern end) into the Mfini, which is in reality the See also:

LOWER

lower course of the Lukenye. The lake is gradually diminishing in See also:

AREA

area; in the See also:

RAINY, ROBERT (1826-1906)

rainy See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season it overflows its See also:

banks. The surrounding See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country is very flat and densely wooded. See KASAI; and articles and maps in Le Mouvement geog., specially vol. xiv., No. 29 (1897) and vol. See also:

XXIV

xxiv., No. 38 (1907).

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