Matadi Sentence Examples

In 1911-3 a pipe-line was laid from Matadi, on the Congo estuary, to Stanley Pool to supply the river steamers with petroleum for fuel and reservoirs capable of holding 8,000 tons of oil were built.

Matadi is situated on the left bank of the Congo, at the highest point of the lower river which can be reached by sea-going vessels.

Lukungu, situated on the banks of the river of that name, a southern tributary of the Congo, about half-way between Matadi and Stanley Pool, was formerly the capital of the Falls district, and the chief recruiting station for porters on the lower Congo.

Tumba, the present capital of the district, is a station on the Congo railway, the half-way house between Matadi and Stanley Pool.

From its mouth to Matadi (85 m.) the Congo is navigable by ocean-going vessels.

From Matadi a railway, completed in 1898 at a cost of £2,720,000, and 260 m.

The ports of entry are Banana, Boma and Matadi.

The districts are Banana, Boma, Matadi, Falls, Stanley Pool, Kwango Oriental, Ubangi, Lualaba-Kasai, Lake Leopold II., Equator, Aruwimi, Bangala and Welle.