[60] Mr. A. J. Wauters, assistant secretary of the International Congress of Commercial Geography, 1879. First number of the Revue, July 1, 1883, p. 63.
[61] Niadi-Kwilu.
[62] The Times of the 5th November, 1882, in which an English translation of the circular dispatch of the Portuguese Government is published, says: “Unquestionably because the Government perceived that the capture had been made improperly.”
[63] Parliamentary Papers, Africa, No. 2, 1882, p. 86.
[64] Paris, G. Charpentier & Co., 1883.
[65] I quote the text of the circular as published in the Indpendance Belge of the 7th November, 1883.
ARGUMENT OF PROFESSOR ÉGIDE ARNTZ
Can independent chiefs of savage tribes cede to private citizens the whole or part of their states, with the sovereign rights which pertain to them, conformably to the traditional customs of the country?
This question, as it is propounded, presents two aspects. It must be considered:
I. From the point of view of the right of the one who cedes.
II. From the point of view of the one to whom the cession is made.