Sections 1 Mr. 2 A railway, excellently constructed in view of the difficulties to be encountered, now… 3 Léopoldville is sometimes spoken of as a Congo town, but it cannot rightly be so termed. 4 These shops and traders do scarcely any business in native produce, of which there may be… 5 The 3,000 Government workpeople at Léopoldville are drawn from nearly every part of the… 6 A hospital for Europeans and an establishment designed as a native hospital are in charge of… 7 The Government stores at Léopoldville are large and well built, and contain not only the… 8 This commercial Company has three other steamers, but the interdiction referred to applies… 9 Men are also required to work at the neighbouring wood-cutting post for the Government… 10 Statements of this kind might be tediously multiplied. 11 So far as I could observe in the limited time at my disposal, the people of F* now rarely… 12 At Bolobo, where I spent ten days waiting for a steamer to continue my journey, a somewhat… 13 The Bolobo people do not object so much to the regular food tax, just because this is… 14 There was a good deal of sickness in this town, and in that beyond it at the date of my visit. 15 I learned while at Bolobo that a large influx from the I* district (which comprises the… 16 Several reasons for the increase of sickness and the great falling-off in the population of… 17 It is difficult to exactly estimate the number of soldiers enrolled and maintained by the… 18 From Irebu I proceeded some 25 miles to Ikoko, once a large village on the north shore of… 19 Statements of a similar character, often supported by many witnesses, were made to me more… 20 The population of the lake-side towns would seem to have diminished within the last ten… 21 The value of the annual payment in gum-copal made by each town would seem to be about 360l.,… 22 At other villages which I visited, I found the tax to consist of baskets, which the… 23 “L’Inspecteur d’État en mission vérifie si ce tarif est en rapport avec le prix de la… 24 Another small village, Bomenga, stands on the other side of the Government houses; the… 25 I have dwelt upon the condition of P* and the towns I visited around Lake Mantumba in my… 26 The chief of the P* post told me that a similar alarm reigned almost everywhere in the… 27 The taxes levied on the people of the district being returnable each week or fortnight, it… 28 I subsequently found when in the neighbourhood of Coquilhatville that summary arrest and… 29 My informant, who dwelt in a village near R*, which I was then visiting, said he saw the… 30 From Lake Mantumba I proceeded to the immediate neighbourhood of Coquilhatville, where five… 31 There are plantations of both existing, but these are the property of either the Government… 32 At the village of A*, which I visited twice during my stay in the neighbourhood, A furnished… 33 —+—+— | Rods. 34 These figures, I found on inquiry, were confirmed as correct by those who were acquainted… 35 On a certain Sunday, when he had gone in with the usual weekly supplies, which are… 36 It was on the 21st August that I visited W*, where I found that the statements made to me… 37 I saw some bundles of firewood being got ready for carriage to this place. 38 A man named H stated that while the town was occupied by the soldiers, a woman who belonged… 39 With regard to the quantity of food supplies levied upon W*, I did not obtain the total… 40 These fines, it should be borne in mind, are illegally imposed: they are not “fines of… 41 If a legal warrant exists for the action of the authorities in this case—as in the numerous… 42 At neither W* nor Y* is any rubber worked. 43 The Secteur of Bongandanga, which was the only district of the A.B.I.R. 44 In a conversation with a gentleman of experience on this question, our remarks turned upon… 45 The region drained by the Lulongo being of great fertility has, in the past, maintained a… 46 The course of the Lulongo River below Bassakanusu to its junction with the Congo lies… 47 In the case of the A.B.I.R. 48 Since it was thus to the labour of the native alone that the profits of the Company were… 49 A third admitted that there was no law on the Congo Statute Book constituting his trading… 50 As Z* lies upon the main stream of the Lulongo River, and is often touched at by passing… 51 The remaining eleven women, whom he indicated, he said he had caught and was detaining as… 52 One of them, gun over shoulder, marched a procession of men—the Chief of the village at… 53 The A.B.I.R. 54 At Bongandanga the men of the district named E**, distant about 20 miles, had been brought… 55 Somewhat differing explanations were offered me of the reasons for the constant guarding of… 56 I went to the homes of these men some miles away and found out their circumstances. 57 In September I visited a native village called D**, situated some miles from the A.B.I.R. 58 As to the condition of the men who paid by detention in the “maison des otages” 59 The A.B.I.R. 60 Deaths even in the local prison are not, however, unknown. 61 It is true an officer of the Congo Executive is deputed to exercise a qualified surveillance… 62 But as the A.B.I.R. 63 On a Sunday in August, I saw six of the local sentries going back with cap-guns and… 64 As I was leaving Bongandanga, on the 3rd September, several elderly Headmen of the… 65 “That it is just to take into account that, by the correspondence produced in the case, the… 66 On my leaving Bongandanga on the 3rd September I returned down the Lopori and Lulongo… 67 They brought with them three individuals who had been shockingly wounded by gun fire, two… 68 These people were at once followed by two men of M**, situated, they said, close to K**, and… 69 These people were immediately followed by a number of natives who came before me bringing a… 70 At the same time a number of men followed, with the request that I would listen to them. 71 One of the men with him, who gave his name as H H, said that two weeks ago the white man at… 72 Other people were waiting, desirous of speaking with me, but so much time was taken in… 73 It was obviously impossible that I should visit all the villages of the natives who came to… 74 The number of these “forest guards” 75 Their “rights of police,” 76 Three of these injured individuals, subsequent to the initial attack upon them, had had… 77 From my observation of the districts I travelled on in the Upper Congo, it would seem… 78 I decided, owing to pressure of other duties, to return from Coquilhatville to Stanley Pool. 79 I added, however, that there was no law on the Congo Statute Book which forbade him or any…
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