This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...led to the premature outbreak of a war--necessary, we admit, but uncalled-for to the extent it assumed--in the region where it has since been waged. But the anti-slavery war, authorised by the Anti-Slavery Conference in Brussels in 1890, was soon seized upon as an excuse for the further extension of the Congo State ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...led to the premature outbreak of a war--necessary, we admit, but uncalled-for to the extent it assumed--in the region where it has since been waged. But the anti-slavery war, authorised by the Anti-Slavery Conference in Brussels in 1890, was soon seized upon as an excuse for the further extension of the Congo State four years afterwards. This we may learn in a subsequent chapter. Still, after all has been said to the discredit of the Congo State, the work which has been accomplished since Mr. Stanley descended What we refer to is described more plainly in the diaries of some of the officers attached to the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. In lS'Ji, so convinced was the King of the scant supply of proper material to draw upon in Belgium, that he once more turned to England and other countries for a leaven of a better quality among his officials. But the Congo country is not likely to attract much administrative ability of the best type. the Congo is marvellous. Its practice may not have been equal to its theory; but, the King having--to use a homely proverb--" paid the tiddler," it would be unreasonable to deny him the poor privilege of" calling the tune." And the tune has been that on few parts of the Congo is it any longer dangerous for a white man to travel alone. On stretches where ferocious cannibals tried to intercept Mr. Stanley's party for culinary purposes, thirty-five steamers puff so familiarly as scarcely to arouse the interest of the blase barbarians, who, if they have still to learn the blessings of toil, have made the first steps in understanding that without the products that can alone be obtained by it, there are to be had none of the articles which they have learned to look upon as indispensable. Serious blunders have been ...
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