H. W. W.
New York, January 2, 1905.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| Preface | [iii] | |
| I. | —Genesis of Mid-African Civilisation | [1] |
| II. | —Stanley and King Leopold II.’s Conception of the Congo Free State | [14] |
| III. | —Founding of the Congo Free State | [23] |
| IV. | —Early Belgian Expeditions | [31] |
| V. | —The Waterways of the Congo | [42] |
| VI. | —The State and International Law | [64] |
| VII. | —Horrors of the Arab Slave Trade | [83] |
| VIII. | —The Berlin Conference | [92] |
| IX. | —The Economic Régime of the Berlin Act | [104] |
| X. | —An Appeal to Belgium to Suppress the Slave Trade | [126] |
| XI. | —The Second Brussels Conference | [134] |
| XII. | —The Congo Bequeathed to Belgium | [145] |
| XIII. | —Tribes of the Congo State | [151] |
| XIV. | —The Congo Public Force | [164] |
| XV. | —Belgian Campaigns against the Arabs | [177] |
| XVI. | —Belgian Campaigns against the Arabs—(Concluded) | [189] |
| XVII. | —The Suppression of Slavery | [197] |
| XVIII. | —Frontiers and Diplomatic Settlements | [206] |
| XIX. | —The Bahr-el-Ghazal and the Nile | [211] |
| XX. | —Mutinies of the Batetela Tribe | [216] |
| XXI. | —Displacement of the Population | [223] |
| XXII. | —The State’s Administration: | [228] |
| Department of Justice | [231] | |
| Native Chieftaincies | [239] | |
| XXIII. | —The Postal, Telegraph, and Telephone Service | [243] |
| XXIV. | —Navigation, Railways, Roads | [248] |
| XXV. | —Science, Agriculture, Civilising Measures | [264] |
| XXVI. | —Trade, Revenue, and Taxes | [274] |
| XXVII. | —Missions and Schools | [298] |
| XXVIII. | —State Lands and Concessions | [308] |
| XXIX. | —The Nemesis of Libel | [340] |
| XXX. | —The Congo Campaign in England | [366] |
| XXXI. | —The Congo Campaign in America | [385] |
| XXXII. | —Testimony of Travellers and Thinkers | [397] |
| XXXIII. | —Testimony of Travellers and Thinkers—(Continued) | [411] |
| XXXIV. | —Testimony of Travellers and Thinkers—(Continued) | [418] |
| XXXV. | —Testimony of Travellers and Thinkers—(Concluded) | [424] |
| XXXVI. | —The Attitude of Europe and the United States | [446] |
| XXXVII. | —Summary, Retrospect, and Prophecy | [472] |
| APPENDIX | |
| The Treaty of Vivi, 13th June, 1880 | [487] |
| The Treaty of Manyanga, 12th August, 1882 | [488] |
| The Treaty of Leopoldville, 29th April, 1883 | [489] |
| The Treaty of Stephanieville, undated | [490] |
| Table of other Treaties, Districts ceded, and Stations established by the International Association of the Congo | [491] |
| Report from the Committee on Foreign Relations to the Senate of the United States, March 26, 1884 (Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama), recommending the recognition of the International African Association as a friendly Government, with citations from the history of the American colonies | [492] |
| An essay on “The Free Navigation of the Congo,” by Sir Travers Twiss, taken from the Revue de Droit International, 1883 | [502] |
| An argument by Professor Arntz, citing numerous authorities, on the question, Can Savage Tribes cede their territory to Private Persons with the Sovereign Rights appertaining thereto | [516] |
| For Treaty between the International Association of the Congo and the United States, see Chapter IV. | |
| The General Act of the Berlin Conference | [530] |
| Declaration of the General Act of the Brussels Conference, July 2, 1890 | [552] |
| Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation between the United States and the Congo Free State, January 24, 1891 | [553] |
| Protocol in which the United States ratifies the General Act of the Brussels Conference, February 2, 1892 | [559] |
| Dispatch from his Britannic Majesty’s Minister at Brussels enclosing: | |
| A Decree by the Sovereign of the Congo Free State providing Settlements for native children orphaned or abandoned, July 12, 1890 | [561] |
| A Decree instituting a local Commission of Europeans for the Protection of Natives, September 18, 1896 | [562] |
| Official letter of instruction thereon from the Secretary of State to the Governor-General at Boma, in the Congo Free State, October 1, 1896 | [563] |
| Letter of Governor-General Wahis to the Reverend George Grenfell (British), of the Baptist Missionary Society at Bolobo, transmitting Decree, December 26, 1896 | [565] |
| Circular to all District Commissioners, Heads of Zones and of Posts with regard to barbarous customs prevailing among the native tribes, February 27, 1897 | [566] |
| Letter from the Reverend George Grenfell to the Governor-General, July 13, 1897 | [568] |
| Co-ordinated text of various instructions respecting relations between state officials and natives | [569] |
| Report of first meeting of Commission for Protection of Natives, May 17, 1897 | [571] |
| A Decree appointing additional members upon the Commission for the Protection of Natives, March 23, 1901 | [572] |
| The British Dispatch to European Powers calling attention to charges alleged against the Congo Free State, and inviting consideration thereof. August 8, 1903 | [573] |
| Letter from Sir Constantine Phipps, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister at Brussels, transmitting text of the Note and its enclosures addressed by the Congo Government to the Powers parties to the Act of Berlin, replying to the British Dispatch of August 8, 1903 | [577] |
| Rejoinder of the Congo Government to the Report, dated December 11, 1903, of Mr. Roger Casement, his Britannic Majesty’s Consul at Boma, wherein, amongst others, charges of maltreatment of natives are made. March 12, 1904 | [590] |
| Memorandum on the part of the Congo Government regretting that the British Foreign Office did not deem it necessary to communicate to it previousConsular Reports, the names of persons accused and generally such specific information as would enable the Congo Government to prosecute offenders,etc., together with the remarks of the Secretary-General of the Congo Free State upon the debates in the British Parliament as to partitioningthat State between the Powers whose possessions surround it. May 14, 1904 | [610] |
| Features of the Land System in the African Colonies of Germany, Great Britain, France, and Portugal | [612] |
| Concessionaires, Firms, and Trading Companies in the Congo Free State | [616] |
| Officials of the Congo Free State | [617] |
| Index | [619] |
ERRATA
Illustration, page [92], read Basoko for Baneko.
Illustration, page [130], read Turumbus for Barumbus.
Illustration, page [216], read Commissary-General.
Illustration, page [226], read House for Mission.