Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence]

The population during the continuance of these wars diminished, I estimate, by some 60 per cent., and the remnant of the inhabitants are only now, in many cases, returning to th...

In the morning the soldiers wanted S S to go and look for manioc for them, but she was afraid to go out as they looked to her as if they wanted to kill her. The soldiers thrashe...

3. The district of Lukolela may be described as follows: The beach line is wooded, broken by one or two creeks, one of which winds for a considerable distance inland to a distri...

As I was leaving Bongandanga, on the 3rd September, several elderly Headmen of the neighbouring villages were putting off in their canoes to the opposite forest, to get meat whe...

Heard that L* came sometimes to M* from I*. I am now 100 miles (about) up-river from N*. Went into one of the M* country farm towns called B B*. Found on entering plantation two...

Their “rights of police,” by the Circular of Governor-General Wahis of October 1900, were seemingly limited to the right to “requisition” the Government forces in their neighbou...

In conversation upon this entry, I was told that the M. P. referred to was an officer in the Government service, who, at the date in question, had come down from the Momboyo Riv...

At F* I spent four days. I had visited this place in August 1887 when the line of villages comprising the settlement contained from 4,000 to 5,000 people. Most of these villages...

On a certain Sunday, when he had gone in with the usual weekly supplies, which are returnable on Sundays, he had been short of eight rations of fish and ten rations of kwanga an...

Whereas although the restoring of order has been occasionally vaguely mentioned it is clearly shown by the evidence of all the witnesses, and even by the reports addressed by th...

The native is free to seek by work the remuneration which contributes to the increase of his well-being. One of the objects, indeed, of the general policy of the State is to aim...

Answers: “I should think so. Did I not get this wound here” (pointing to a cut by the tendon Achilles on the left heel) “the same day, when running away in fright? My own knife...

With regard to the arming of the sentries or “forest guards” in the employ of the trading Companies on the Upper Congo, the “Notes” throw doubt on the estimate Mr. Casement form...

_Q._ Were you brought down to Boma under a military escort?--_A._ No; I came down alone; but when I arrived at Boma I was met by a guard of soldiers, and was taken to the prison...

Such being the object in view, it became necessary to bring a whole series of charges against the State. So far as the humanitarian side of the question is concerned, the allege...

Somewhat differing explanations were offered me of the reasons for the constant guarding of the natives I observed during the course of the “market.” This was first said to be a...

The chief of the P* post told me that a similar alarm reigned almost everywhere in the country behind his station, and that when he went on the most peaceful missions only a few...

If _bonâ fide_ occupiers ever existed they have become proprietors; occupation, where it can be exercised, is under all legislative codes, one of the methods by which property c...

His Majesty’s Government desire, however, to express at once their great satisfaction at learning that the Congo Government concur in their view of the general principles which...

What it is important to discover from the immense number of questions touched on by the Consul, and the multiplicity of minor facts which he has collected, is whether the sort o...

Attendu qu’en principe on ne pourrait certainement pas contester le droit de l’autorité judiciaire de demander et même de rechercher en tout lieu public ou privé toute pièce pou...

“Chaque année, dit l’Article 28 de ce Décret, les Commissaires de District dresseront dans les limites de l’Article 2 du présent Règlement (c’est-à-dire dans la limite de quaran...

The letter then seeks to show that the scene Mr. Casement had witnessed had no foundation in fact, and ends with the request that Mr. Ellery should communicate its contents “au...

Autre fait: Les journaux ont relaté que dans l’Uganda, des Colonies Anglaises, on perd annuellement 50,000 personnes. Et aujourd’hui, à propos d’une découverte qu’aurait faite l...

There is also a large plantation of coffee-trees, a telegraph office, and a trading store, but I could see no indications of native life beyond those dependent on these establis...

“Between July 1894 and February 1896, no fewer than sixty-two convictions--admittedly representing a small proportion of offences actually committed--were recorded against them...

_R._ Oui; j’ai entendu les indigènes se plaindre qu’ils travaillaient beaucoup pour rien, que les Chefs s’emparaient des mitakos que les blancs payaient pour la récolte du caout...

“_R._ J’étais esclave de Monkekola, à Malele, dans le district des Bangala. Un jour, j’allai avec lui à la chasse au sanglier. Il en blessa un avec une lance, et alors la bête,...

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J’atteste qu’Epondo, d’après ce que lui-même a raconté, a perdu la main gauche à la chasse au sanglier. La bête blessée l’aurait attaqué et lui aurait arraché la main. Ce ne ser...

After dealing with the treatment of natives, M. de Cuvelier’s note proceeds to explain the views of the Congo Government with regard to the system of trade now existing in the S...

At Bonginda, the natives of a neighbouring village (Bossunguma) came to him and informed him, amongst other things, that a “sentry” of the La Lulonga Company, named Kelengo,[90]...

[82] La Circulaire du 7 Septembre, 1903, concerne “l’interdiction” d’envoyer des soldats armés sous la conduite des gradés noirs, et non, comme le dit la copie erronée produite...