Civilisation in Congoland: A Story of International Wrong-doingP. S. King & son, 1903 - 311 頁 |
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administration Africa agents Angola April Arabs arrived Aruwimi Association Baluba Bangala Baron Dhanis Basoko Batetela Belgian Belgium Berlin Conference Boma British brought Brussels Bulletin Officiel cannibals Captain carriers Cattier civilisation coast colonial commercial commissary companies Congo Basin Congo Free Congo Government Congo State's Congoland decree Dhanis's district enterprise Équateur established European expedition fighting force publique francs French Glave Gongo guns hands International ivory January Kabambare Kasai Kasongo Katanga killed King Leopold labour Lado enclave Lake Tanganyika land Leopoldville Lieutenant Lothaire Lower Congo Lualaba Luluaburg Manyema March Matadi ment miles missionaries months nations native chiefs nearly Niam-Niam Nyangwe obtained officers organisation Parliamentary Papers Portuguese possession Powers Rabinek raiding railway recognised region reported river rubber sent sentinel Sjöblom slave trade Société soldiers Stanley Falls Stanley Pool Stanley's station steamers taken territory tion Tipu Tipu-Tipu told treaty tribes Ubangi village Vivi Wauters wrote Yambuya Zanzibar
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第 113 頁 - His Majesty the Emperor of the Ottomans; and His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar; Being equally actuated by the firm intention of putting an end to the crimes and devastations engendered by the traffic in African slaves, of efficiently protecting the aboriginal population of Africa, and of securing for that vast continent the benefits of peace and civilization...
第 1 頁 - In all the regions forming the basin of the Congo and its outlets. This basin is bounded by the watersheds (or mountain ridges) of the adjacent basins, namely, in particular, those of the Niari, the...
第 14 頁 - To obtain these fifty-two women, at least ten villages had been destroyed, each having a population of from one to two hundred, or about fifteen hundred in all.
第 48 頁 - Congo, and declares that, in harmony with the traditional policy of the United States, which enjoins a proper regard for the commercial interests of their citizens, while at the same time avoiding interference with controversies between other Powers as well as alliances with foreign nations...
第 107 頁 - Every tusk, piece and scrap, in the possession of an Arab trader has been steeped and dyed in blood ! Every pound weight has cost the life of a man, woman, or child ; for every five pounds a hut has been burned ; for every two tusks a whole village has been destroyed ; every twenty tusks have been obtained at the price of a district, with all its people, villages, and plantations...
第 114 頁 - The experience of all nations who have intercourse with Africa having shown the pernicious and preponderating part played by fire-arms in Slave Trade operations, as well as in intestine wars between native tribes...
第 107 頁 - ... the price of a district with all its people, villages and plantations. It is simply incredible that, because ivory is required for ornaments or billiard games, the rich heart of Africa should be laid waste at this late year of the nineteenth century, signalized as it has been by so much advance, that populations, tribes and nations should be utterly destroyed. Whom after all does this bloody seizure of ivory enrich ?* Only a few dozens of half-castes, Arab and Negro, who, if due justice were...