Narrator
The capital city of Leopoldville is a modern, busy river port, but half of the Belgian Congo is covered by dense equatorial jungle, with a temperature in the 80s almost every day of the year. If Bleep and his friends were to crash...in this land, they would find jungles that are almost useless to man.
Few tropical fruits grow here, and in fact, until recently, the natives lived almost entirely on game they'd snared...or shot with bow and arrow. Today's civilization is moving into the Congo, and the wild animals—antelope, zebra, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and gorilla—are slowly disappearing, except in the game reserves, and the natives are being taught modern farming methods.
The Belgian Congo was first opened to Europeans by Henry Morton Stanley, the American newspaper man—the same Mr. Stanley who said, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume." To most people, the Belgian Congo would not be considered a very pleasant place to live, but it is an interesting place for Bleep...Squeak...and Scratch...to visit.