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Stanley Falls

plural noun

  1. seven cataracts of the Zaire (Congo) River, in the NE Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the equator.


Stanley Falls

plural noun

  1. the former name of Boyoma Falls


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Tippu-Tib was also offered the position of governor at Stanley Falls at a regular salary.

Mr. Wallace bent over the map again and traced down the Congo to Stanley Falls.

At length the little fleet reached the foot of the seventh, or last cataract of Stanley Falls.

Another chief's knife, which came from near the Stanley Falls, is decorated with strips of copper and brass.

By January 1877 the expedition reached the first cataract of what is now known as the Stanley Falls.

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