Chapter VII: General Dispositions (5)

Frelinghuysen, F. F., American Secretary of State, recognises Congo
Free State as a friendly Government, 80

French and Belgian boundary, 46

French Sheldon, Mrs., on atrocities in Congo Free State, 445

Frere, Sir Bartle, becomes Governor of the Cape, 12;
letter to, from Mr. H. Nixon, on baneful influence of Aborigines’
Protection Society, 377

Fuchs, M., reports on Public Force, 170;
suggests (in his capacity of Vice-Governor-General) plan to control
migration of natives, 226;
report of July, 1904, 229;
report on routes for motor cars, 263

G

Gandu, 181, 217, 218

Garenganze Evangelical Mission, 300

_General Anzeiger_, 461

Germaine, Mr., K. C., 341

Germany, war with France, 4;
claims large sections of Africa, 17;
wants part of East Africa, 19;
denounces Anglo-Portuguese Convention, 21;
recognises International Association as a friendly Government, 22;
invites Powers to confer in Berlin, _ibid._;
land system of its African colonies, 612 _et seq._

Ghent, Sisters of Charity, 301

Gibbons, Cardinal, 438;
letter to Secretary Congo Reform Association, 439 _et seq._

Gibbons, Major H. H., opinion of Congo State, 583

Gillain, Commandant, 187, 194, 217, 218

Ginger, 268

Gladstone, his opinion of African explorers, 4

_Globe, The_, letter from Lord Mountmorres to, 441 _et seq._

Gois Kapopa, 184

Gold, discovery of, 291

Goldsmid, Sir Frederic, his report on Portuguese claims, 21

Gongo Lutete. _See_ Lutete.

Gongo Machoffe, 219

_Goodwill_, English Baptist mission steamer, 300

Gordon, General, is employed by Khedive of Egypt to govern Soudan, 6;
appointed by King Leopold to chief command on the Congo, 41;
British Government claim his services, _ibid._

Gortchakoff, Prince, 68

Grant discovers sources of the Nile and Lake Victoria, 4

Granville, Lord, 20;
on development of trade in Central Africa, 530

Great Britain. _See_ Britain, Great.

Grégoire, M., assistant at Court of Inquiry, 476

Grenfell, Mr. George, English missionary, remarks on Congo Free State,
427;
on administration of justice in, 568 _et seq._

Grey, Mr., English civil engineer, remarks on Congo Free State,
435 _et seq._

Grison, Rev. Father, missionary in charge of St. Gabriel’s, Stanley
Falls, 301;
extracts from his diary, 302;
his strenuous life, 306, 307

Guinness, Dr. H. Grattan, lectures in Scotland on atrocities in Congo
Free State, 424 _et seq._, 427

Guinness, Mrs. H. Grattan, her testimony different from that of her
husband, 425

H

_Hamburgische Börsen Halle, Neue_, its estimate of British opinion of
Congo Free State, 333 _et seq._

Hamed-ben-Mohamed, _note_, 179

Hanssens, Captain, 40

Harbey, Rev. C. H., testifies as to lying proclivities of natives,
600. _See_ Epondo.

Harrison, Major James, 369, 374;
letter to London _Times_, 404 _et seq._;
remarks upon side issue raised by Secretary of Congo Reform
Association, 409 _et seq._

Head, Mr. George, M.A., demolishes arguments of Secretary of Congo
Reform Association at Boston Peace Congress, 396

Head tax, in British colonies, 582

Health committees, 268

Heffter, his theory of the existence of a State, 528

Henderson, Mr. John, his comments on Consul Casement’s report,
466 _et seq._

Henry, Commandant, 220, 221, 222

Heusch, De, Lieut., 194;
is killed in battle, _ibid._

Heuval, Dr. Van den, 35

Heymans, Captain, 54

Hinde, Dr. Sidney, 179, 183, _note_, 188;
his description of a boma, _note_, 191

Hodister, 178

Holland, Queen of, 143

Holt, Mr. John, Liverpool merchant, 373;
pays Mr. Benedetti £40, 383, 384;
his trading company loses its case against the _Compagnie Française
du Congo Occidental_ before the Council of Appeal at Libreville,
450

Horses, 269

Hospital for Natives, Boma, 268

Humanitarianism, pretext of, 578

Hut tax, in British colonies, 582, 605

Hygienic Commission, Boma, 265

I

Import duties, 140

Imports into Congo Free State, 1903, 282, 283, 284, 286;
compared with imports of previous years, 286

_Independance Belge_, 352, 353, 374

Influenza, 187

International Association for the Exploration and Civilisation of
Central Africa, creation of, 12;
General Sanford (United States Minister at Brussels) becomes
member, 13;
receives influential support, _ibid._;
receives report of Commission of Eight, 25;
founds station on Lake Tanganyika, 34;
stations created by, 491;
its recognition by United States as a friendly Government
recommended by Senator Morgan, 492;
treaties with Germany, Great Britain, France, and Portugal,
544 _et seq._;
declaration exchanged with Belgium, _ibid._

International Missionary Alliance, 300;
eleven grants of land to, 387

Irebu, 56

Itembo, 52

Itimbiri, 251

Ituri, forest of, 52

Ivory, tax on, 178, 272;
export duty on, 278

J

Janssen, M. Camille, 165

Janssens, M., president of Committee of Inquiry, 476

Japan, domainal system of, 334

Jesuits, 301

Johnston, Sir Harry, G. C. M. G., 152;
quotation from his book, _The Uganda Protectorate_, 400 _et seq._

Juan II., King of Portugal, 42

Junker, Dr., German explorer, 53;
on native punishments, 425

Jürgens, 218

K

Kabambari, 191

Kabinda, 43;
attacked by Batetelas, 217, 218

Kabindas, a Congolese tribe employed by Stanley as carriers, 39

Kakongos, 153

Kalengo. _See_ Epondo.

Karema, 34

Kassai, 50

Kassali, Lake, 48

Kasson, Mr., United States Plenipotentiary, 107

Kassongo, 47, 181, 182, 187, 188, 189, 191, 193, 221

Katanga, 48;
copper deposits in, _ibid._;
soon to be reached by railroad, 48, 184

Katué, 221

Khartoum, 214

Khedive of Egypt employs Sir Samuel Baker, 4

Kibala Mountains, the African Switzerland, 48

Kiranga-cha-gungo, largest inland volcano in world, 57

Kirk, Sir John, 136, 426

Kipango, 186

Kivu, Lake of, 57

_Kleine_ Journal, 462

Konings, 218

Kwango, 50

L

_La Liberté_, 460

La Lulonga Society. _See_ Epondo, 608

Labour, question of native, 581

Labudi, 47

Lado, Enclave of, 210

Lado territory, 219

Laeken, Brussels, King Leopold’s palace, 248

Lagos, British colony of, its revenue, 1898-1901, _note_, 289;
sixty-five per cent. of revenue derived from alcoholic liquor, 311;
wasteful methods of dealing with rubber and timber, 323;
decline of prosperity in, _ibid._, 374, 468;
its revenue reviewed by the Lagos _Standard_, 469 _et seq._

Lake Albert Edward, 56

Lake Albert Nyanza, 52, 56

Lake Kassali, 48

Lake Kivu, 57

Lake Leopold II., discovered by Stanley, 56

Lake Matumba, 46, 53

Lake Moero, 49

Lake Tanganyika. _See_ Tanganyika.

Lambermont, Baron, attends Brussels Conference (1876), 8;
reports upon safeguards for native races, 26;
drafts final act of International Conference, _ibid._;
on slavery, 89;
his definition of free trade, 111;
presides over Second Brussels Conference, 136

Land system, features of the, in the African colonies of Germany,
Great Britain, France, and Portugal, 612 _et seq._ (_See_ Congo
Free State, 586)

Lange, De, Belgian officer, 192

Lansdowne, Marquess of, 450;
his dispatch to the Powers Signatory to the Berlin Act,
457 _et seq._;
its reception by British press, 460, 465;
dispatch to the Powers Signatory of the General Act of Berlin
respecting alleged cases of ill-treatment of natives and the
existence of trade monopolies in Congo State, 573 _et seq._

Launay, Count de, 298

Laveleye, M. Emile, 105

Lavigerie, Cardinal, 90;
founds Belgian Anti-Slavery Society, 91;
visits Belgium, 134, 426

Lawrence, William Beach, on what constitutes a State, 528

Le Marinel, Lieut., 178, 179

Leigh, Mr. John George, his agreement with Captain Guy Burrows, 353

Leopold II. (King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Congo Free
State), his accession to Belgian throne, 2;
believes Africa promising outlet for surplus European population, 3;
his magnificent physique and personal accomplishments, _ibid._;
perceives opportunity to civilise Central Africans and found Belgian
colony, _ibid._;
his scheme disregarded, _ibid._;
speech before Belgian Senate in 1860, 4;
his philanthropy, 6;
considers how the slave trade in Africa can be abolished, _ibid._;
convenes an international conference of geographers in Brussels
(1876)
to discuss the subject, 7;
his circular letter, _ibid._;
his speech, 8;
becomes President of International Association for the Exploration
and
Civilisation of Central Africa, 12;
speech before National Committee, 14;
his desire for new markets for Belgian manufactures, 17;
his prescience, _ibid._;
spends largely of his private fortune to suppress slavery, 18;
appeal to British Government, 21;
recognised by Powers as Sovereign ruler of Congo Free State, 28;
becomes honorary President of the _Comité d’Études du Haut-Congo_,
29;
invites Stanley to Brussels, 39;
induces him to enter service of International Association of the
Congo
(new name of the _Comité d’Études du Haut-Congo_), _ibid._;
plans campaign of exploration, 60;
a true friend to Stanley, 65;
his early declaration, _ibid._;
letter to his ministers, 99;
authorised by Belgian Chamber to assume sovereignty of Congo Free
State, 101;
his acknowledgment, _ibid._;
receives congratulations and is visited by Lord Mayor of London,
101, 102;
is appealed to by British Government to call conference at Brussels
to concert measures for suppression of slavery on East Coast of
Africa, 132;
letter to M. Beernaert, 147;
bequeaths sovereignty of Congo Free State to Belgium, 149;
_note_, 179;
confers title of Baron on Captain Dhanis, 195;
his plans to suppress slavery excite little interest, 197;
depletes his fortune to achieve his object, 198;
receives scant support outside Belgium, _ibid._;
his Majesty’s mandate, _ibid._;
his first object realised, 205;
his political foresight, 210;
his energy and industry, 248;
Laeken, his palace at Brussels, _ibid._;
his châlet at Ostend, _ibid._;
his immense expenditure on Congo State, 276;
impossible to recover, 277;
grants annual subsidy of 1,000,000 francs to Congo State, 278;
his early declarations consistently carried out, 320;
Captain Guy Burrows dedicates book to, 347;
is abused by Secretary of Congo Reform Association at Boston Peace
Congress, 395;
Congo Free State likely to fulfil his expectations, 447

Leopoldville, 46;
fortnightly communication with Stanley Falls, 251;
treaty of, 489

Leroi, Captain, 219, 220

Leslie, Rev. W. H., of American Baptist Missionary Union, 411;
contributes article on Congo to _Missionary Review of the World_,
414

Liebrechts, Mr., Secretary-General of Congo Free State, letters to
from
Captain Burrows, 347 _et seq._

Lindi, 221

Lindt, Van, Lieut., 189

Lippens, 181, 183

Livingstone, Dr., enters Congo region, 1860, and discovers lakes Moero
and Bangweolo, 4;
found by Stanley in 1871, _ibid._;
says white man can live in Central Africa, 17, 197

Livingstone Inland Mission, 299

Lomami, 49, 50, 51, 181, 182, 183, 217, 218

Lopori, 49

Lothaire, Commandant, 194, 217, 218, 219

Lua, 54

Luahilimta, 57

Lualaba, 47, 177, 186, 251

Lualaba-Kassai, 201

Luapula, 47

Lubefu, 50, 335

Lubuga, 57

Lubukine, 194

Lufila, 47

Lufupa, 47

Lukenie River, 335

Lulongo, 49, 50

Luluabourg, 74, 201;
outbreak of Batetelas at, 216, 218

Lumber, 272

Lunda country, 74

Lusambo, 179, 201, 217

Lusana, 183

Lutete, Gongo, 179;
his personality, 180, 181, 182, 184;
is court-martialled and shot, 190;
disastrous consequences of that event, 191, 216

M

Mabode, 52

Maes, Dr., 32;
his death, _ibid._

Maguire, Dr., English missionary, remarks on Congo Free State,
429 _et seq._

Mahagi, 212

Malet, Sir Edward, attends International Conference at Berlin, 24;
speech, 27

Maloney, Mr. J. A., on native punishments, 426

Malumba, Batetela mutineer, murdered by one of his followers, 221

Manning, Cardinal, 131

Manyema, collectors of ivory, 59, 182;
country of, 191, 218, 221

Marès, M. Roland de, 384

Marno, M., 32

Marriage, Christian, among natives, 273

Martens, Prof., 136

Martin of Bohemia, cosmographer 42

Matadi, 47, 252, 253;
trains from, 255

Matumba, Lake, 46, 53, 56

Mayombés, 153

Mayumbe Railway, 256

Mbomu, 54, 208, 209, 210

Meshra-er-Rek, 213

Mfini, 56

Mgonda-Mkali, 33

Michaux, Captain, 182, 183, 184, 218

Middle Congo, 46, 48

Mirambo, 33;
his conflict with Simba, 36

Missionaries, 299, 300, 301, 385, 387, 411, 424, 425, 427, 429;
deceived by native witnesses, 233

Missions, Protestant, 299

_Modes et Robes à la Congo_, 154

Moero, Lake, 49;
south-eastern boundary between British territory and Congo Free
State, 59

Moharra, Munie, 181, 184, 185, 186

Mohun, Mr., formerly United States Consul at Boma, 411;
his opinion of Congo Free State Government, 415 _et seq._

Mokoangi, Cataracts of, 54

Molieka, 52

Moltke, Von, 180

Moncheur, Baron, Belgian Minister to United States, 389;
career, 618

Mongalla, 52

Moore, English naturalist, 57;
discovers zoölogical remains of a dead sea, 59

Morgan, Senator, of Alabama, presents memorial to Congress, 388;
submits Report from Committee on Foreign Relations recommending
United States to recognise International African Association as
friendly government, 492

_Morning Advertiser_, comments upon Lord Lansdowne’s dispatch of
August 8, 1903, 458 _et seq._;
betrays some British desires, 459

_Morning Post_, 369;
letter to from Major James Harrison, 409;
from Mr. Grey, 435 _et seq._

Morrison, Rev. Mr. W. M., of Lexington, Va., 385;
fails to obtain land concessions and special privileges, 386;
his statements compared with facts, 387, 388, 396, 456

Mountains, Blue, 52, 53

Mountains, Crystal, 47

Mountains, Kibala, 48

Mountains, Pallaballa, 252, 253

Mountmorres, Lord, 374;
starts on journey through Congo Free State, 440;
letter from, to London _Globe_, 441 _et seq._

Mpala, 37

Msiri, 48

Münster _Westphal_, 462

Musserongés, 153

Mwadi, 184

Mwana Mkwanga, Arab camp at, 191

N

Natives, Commission for Protection of, report of first meeting,
572 _et seq._;
alleged to be ill-treated, 573 _et seq._

Nerincx, Professor A., coadjutor of Baron Moncheur, 389

Netherlands, Prince Henry of,
becomes President of the National Committee of the International
Association for the Exploration and Civilisation of Central Africa,
13

_New York Herald_, Stanley’s letters to, 38

_New York Press_, 464

Neyn, M. De, assistant at Court of Inquiry, 476

Niadi Kwilu Basin explored, 73

Niadi, treaty with King of, 490

Niam-Niam, tribe inhabiting Bahr-el-Ghazal country, 214

Niangara, 53

Niger, navigation of the, as provided for in General Act of Berlin
Conference, 541 _et seq._

Nisco, Baron, President of Court of Appeal, 232;
member of Court of Inquiry, 476

Nôtre Dame, Sisters of, 301

Nutmegs, 269

Nyangwe, 45, 52, 59, 181, 182, 186, 187, 188, 217, 221

Nys, M. Ernest, 77

Nzilo, 47

O

Obi, 220

Omdurman, battle of, 213

Ordeal by poison, 159;
State Circular on repression of, 566 _et seq._

Ostend, King Leopold’s châlet at, 248

_Our Lady of Perpetual Help_, Roman Catholic Mission steamer, 300

Ourroussof, Prince, 136

P

Padrão Foreland, 42

Pallaballa Mountains, 252, 253

Palmerston, Lord, on recognition of States by British Government, 528

Panga Falls, 53

Parliament, British, debate in, 580

Partition of Congo State, 578 _et seq._, 610

_Peace_, English Baptist Mission steamer, 300

Pepper, 268

_Petit Bleu_, interview with Stanley published in, 397

_Phare de la Loire_, 461

_Philippeville, SS._, 477

Phipps, Sir Constantine, his Britannic Majesty’s minister at Brussels,
dispatch on protection of natives, 561 _et seq._

Photographs, faking of, 371 _et seq._, 602 _et seq._

Pigmies, 156

Poison, ordeal by, 159

Polidori, Signor, Italian physician, remarks on Congo Free State,
428 _et seq._

Poll tax, in British colonies, 582

Polygamy, 163, 273

Ponthier, Captain, 190, 191, 193

Ponthoz, Count Van der Straeten, on safeguarding native races, 26

Pope Leo XIII., encyclical on abolition of slavery in Brazil, 90;
receives Central African Christian Negroes, _ibid._;
his speech, _ibid._

Popelin, Captain, commands second Belgian expedition, 35;
death of, 37

Population, displacement of, 225;
diminution of, 591 _et seq._

Portugal, claims large sections of Africa, 17;
claims Congo River, 19;
land system of its African colonies, 612 _et seq._

Postal Service, 244

Prémontré Fathers, 301

_Prestation_, natives’ contribution of labour towards support of
State, 294

Public Force, 164

_Public Ledger_, 465

Puttkamer, Herr Von, Governor of the Cameroons, his opinion of the
navigation of the Congo River, 252

Q

Queen of Holland, 143

R

Ramaeckers, Captain, commands fourth Belgian expedition, 36;
joins his colleagues at Tanganyika, _ibid._;
takes over command from Cambier, _ibid._;
death of, 37

Rashid, 179, 189, 190, 194

Redemptionists, 301

Redjaf, 201;
railroad to Dufile, 256

_Reed, Henri_, American Baptist Mission steamer, 300

Rejoinder of Congo State to charges in Consul Casement’s Report,
590 _et seq._

Reply of Congo State to British Dispatch, Aug. 8, 1903, denying that
Administration involves systematic cruelty to natives, 577 _et seq._

Revenue, various sources of, 279

Rhodes, Cecil, 208;
prophetic utterance by, 454

Rhodesia, North-eastern, and Congo Free State boundary, 47;
taxes in, 605 _et seq._

Riba Riba, 178

Ridley, Mr. Justice, tries suit for libel brought by Belgian officers
against Messrs. R. A. Everett & Co. and Captain Guy Burrows, in
London, 340 _et seq._;
his charge to jury, 358

Roger, M., 36

Roman Catholic Mission, forty-four grants of land to, 387

Roosevelt, President, 388, 389

_Royal_, steamer employed by Stanley, 39

Rubber (caoutchouc), its cultivation and collection, 270;
its varieties, 272;
export duty on, 278;
decrease in export of, from eight British colonies, 324 _et seq._

Rubi, 52

Rudolph, Archduke, of Austria, becomes President of National Committee
of International Association for the Exploration and Civilisation
of Central Africa, 13

Ruki, 50

Rumeliza, chief of Ujiji, 191, 193, 194

Rusisi, 57

S

Sacred Heart of Mary, Sisters of the, 301

Sacred Heart, Priests of the, 301

Salisbury, Marquess of, his opinion of the Congo Free State
Government,
423, 456, 584

Salisbury, Marquess of (the late), his opinion of the Congo Free State
Government, 423

Salusbury, Captain, his allegations against Congo Free State denied by
Captain Guy Burrows, 346

Sambas Plateau, 50

Sanford, General (United States Minister at Brussels), becomes member
of International Society for the Exploration and Civilisation of
Central Africa, 13;
declaration by, 79;
founds, with M. Georges Brugmann, Exploring Expedition, 276

Sankuru, 50, 179, 336

Sannaes, Lieut., 221

San Salvador, 43

Scherlink, Lieut., 183

Scheut Fathers, 301

Schkopp, Herr Eberhard Von, his remarks upon Congolese trade, 287

School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, 267

Schumacher, Dr. De, member of Court of Inquiry, 476, 478

Scott, Mr. G. A., 341

Sefu, 179, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 189, 190

Semlika, boundary between British and Belgian possessions, 56

Semliki, 221

Seyyid Burghash, Sultan, 32

Shanu, British subject of Lagos, tries to induce Mr. Benedetti to join
anti-Congo campaign, 377 _et seq._

Sierra Leone, convictions for maltreatment of natives in, 582

Simba, his conflict with Mirambo, 36

Sir Bartle Frere. _See_ Frere, Sir Bartle.

Sir Charles Dilke. _See_ Dilke, Sir Charles.

Sir Frederic Goldsmid. _See_ Goldsmid, Sir Frederic.

Sir Harry Johnston. _See_ Johnston, Sir Harry.

Sir John Kirk. _See_ Kirk, Sir John.

Sir Travers Twiss. _See_ Twiss, Sir Travers.

Slavery in Central Africa, 5;
slavery defined, 83;
antiquity of, _ibid._;
Christ the first liberationist, 84;
first awakening to infamy of slavery, _ibid._;
England’s traffic in slaves, _ibid._;
her retribution, 85;
America’s civil war to abolish, _ibid._;
still extant in some countries, _ibid._;
England’s efforts to suppress, 86;
horrors of, 87;
Baron Lambermont on, 89;
Pope Leo XIII.’s encyclical on, 90;
its strange uses before the founding of Congo Free State, 274;
Congo State accused of, 294;
declaration concerning, in General Act of Berlin Conference,
535 _et seq._

Sleeping sickness, 225;
no known cure for, 266

Smallpox, 187, 221, 225, 266

Smet de Naeyer, Count de, 478

Soudan, migratory habit of its population, 226

South Africa, British punitive expeditions in, for collection of taxes
from natives, 607

Spain, King of, becomes President of National Committee of
International
Association for the Exploration and Civilisation of Central Africa,
13

Speke, Captain, discovers Lake Tanganyika, and sources of the Nile and
Lake Victoria, 4, 58

St. Paul de Loanda, 43

_Standard, The_, comments upon Lord Lansdowne’s dispatch of
August 8, 1903, 459

Stanley Falls, 46, 52, 179, 181, 194, 220, 221;
fortnightly communication with Leopoldville, 251

Stanley, Henry Morton, Sir, discovers Dr. Livingstone, 4;
says white man can live in Central Africa, 17;
visits Congo in interest of King Leopold, 20;
demonstrates importance of Congo River in letters to _New York
Herald_ and London _Daily Telegraph_, 39;
founds and fortifies station at Vivi, 40;
constructs road from Vivi to Isanghila, _ibid._;
founds a station at Manyanga, _ibid._;
learns of French founding Brazzaville, and replies by founding
Leopoldville, _ibid._;
goes to Brussels to report progress, _ibid._;
returns to Central Africa, February, 1883;
his achievements impossible without King Leopold’s aid, 65, 197;
Boula Matari, native name for, _note_, 235;
insists upon necessity of railroad round the thirty-two cataracts,
253, 262, 274, 275;
on a common measure of civilisation, 277;
writes introduction to book by Captain Guy Burrows, 347;
the true motive of the anti-Congo campaign, 370;
his opinion of Congo Free State Government, 397 _et seq._;
Congo Free State likely to fulfil his expectations, 447

Stanley Pool, 50, 252

Stanleyville, railroad from, to Great Lakes, 256

Stephanieville, treaty of, 490

Stokes, executed for selling arms to State’s enemies in time of war,
originally Protestant missionary, 307, 373, 452

Storm, Lieut., founds station at Mpala, 37

Strauch, Colonel, President of the _Comité d’Études du Haut-Congo_,
29, 67

Sugar, 53, 272

Svensson, 218

Swanton, Mr., 341

Swedish Missionary Society, 300;
nine grants of land to, 387

T

Tanganyika, Lake, effort to found station at, 34;
the first station of the International Association for the
Exploration
and Civilisation of Central Africa, _ibid._;
partitioned equally between Congo Free State and German East
Africa, 58;
discovered in 1858 by Burton and Speke, _ibid._;
first circumnavigated by Stanley, _ibid._, 191, 194, 200, 208

Taxation, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain ridicules native exoneration from,
581 _et seq._;
defends theory of, 582

Taxation of natives, 114;
their migration to avoid, 224;
personal, the bases of, 293;
reduction of direct, _ibid._

Telegraph, 59

Telegraph service, 245

Telephone, 59

Telephone service, 245

Terrell, Mr., 136

Tervueren, Brussels, Museum, containing objects illustrating Central
African life, 265

Thomas, Mr. Lewis, 341

Thys, Lieut., 256

_Times, The_, 373, 384;
letter from Major James Harrison, 404 _et seq._, 459;
French criticism of, 460

Tippo Tip, 59, _note_, 179, 180, 181, 183, 189, 194

Tobacco, 53, 272

Tobback, M., resident for Congo Free State at Stanley Falls, 189

_To-Day_, 466

Trappistines, 301

Trappists, 301

Tuckey, James Kingston, British explorer, 43

Twiss, Sir Travers, 105;
on free navigation of the Congo, 502

U

Ubanghi, 53, 208, 251

Uelle, 53, 177, 201, 208, 209

Uelle Railway, proposed extension, 54

Uganda Protectorate. _See_ Harrison, Major.

Ujiji, 191

United States, particulars of their origin recorded, 1;
recognises International Association as a friendly Government, 22;
makes treaties with Congo Free State in 1884 and 1885, 92, 199

Upper Congo, 44;
Belgian Society of the, 178

Uranga, 49

Usamba Plateau, 49

V

Van Dorpe, Captain, 165

Van Gele, 53

Vanilla, 269

Vattel on manner of acquiring sovereignty of free country, 527

Vivi, first station founded by Stanley, 40;
road from, to Isanghila made by Stanley, _ibid._;
treaty of, 487

Vivian, Lord, 136; speech at Second Brussels Conference, 142

Vohsen, Consul, 453

Von Bornhaupt, Herr, 453

Von Gotzen, Count, discoverer of volcano Kiranga-cha-gungo, 57

Von Moltke. _See_ Moltke, Von.

W

Waddas, 53

Wagenia, a riverain tribe, 186, 187

Wahis, Colonel (afterwards General Baron Wahis), 253;
speech describing Congolese conditions twenty years ago, 479 _et
seq._

Washington, Mr. Booker, 424

Wauters, A. J., _note_, 188

Wautier, Lieut., 33;
his death, 34

_West Africa_, journal of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce,
450 _et seq._

Wheaton, on recognition of States, 69;
on political status of American Indians, 71

White Fathers, 301

Whiteley, Mr. James Gustavus, of Baltimore, his opinion of the Congo
Free State Government, 411 _et seq._

Widows, strangling, 158

Wingate, Sir Reginald, 454

Winton, Sir Francis de (Governor-General of Congo during absence of
Stanley), formulates land system, 313

Wissmann, 262

Wissmann Falls, 50

Wolf, Eugène, admonition from, 462

Wouters, De, Lieut., 185, 188, 193, 194;
his death, 195

Wulfers, Rev. Father, of the Romee Mission, Yanonghi, 302;
extracts from his diary, 303-305

Y

Yambuya, 52

_Young Africa_, one-screw barge employed by Stanley, 39

Z

Zanzibar, Englishmen murdered by brigands at, 35

Zongo, Cataracts of, 54

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“STORY OF THE CONGO FREE STATE”

By Henry Wellington Wack]

Transcriber’s Notes

pg xiii Changed: Soldiers’ Mess, Suruango, 1903 (Uelle) 189
to: Soldiers’ Mess, Suruango, 1903 (Uelle) 186

pg vii Changed: Preface v
to: Preface iii

pg 19 Changed: her desire for huge territorities
to: her desire for huge territories

pg 85 Changed: because of the strangely prevalent opinon
to: because of the strangely prevalent opinion

pg 128 Changed: a crime of high treason againt humanity.
to: a crime of high treason against humanity.

pg 140 Changed: King Leopold’s rapid acheivements
to: King Leopold’s rapid achievements

pg 156 Changed illustration: Native to Death for Canibalism
to: Native to Death for Cannibalism

pg 286 Changed: English Possessions (East Coast, Africa) 5,210.079
to: English Possessions (East Coast, Africa) 59,210.73

pg 387 Changed: The campaign against the Cong
to: The campaign against the Congo

pg 425 Changed: written by Mrs. H. Gratten Guinness
to: written by Mrs. H. Grattan Guinness

pg 604 Changed: by work on the social condtion
to: by work on the social condition