"In 1887 i spend several months on the upper Congo, and i traveled over some of the grounds i now revisit in the absen…"

"Of the persistent mutilation by government soldiers, there can be no shadow of a doubt, should the system maintain fo…"

"Infamous, infamous shameful system."

"Tackling Leopold in Africa has set in motion a big movement – it must be a movement of human liberation all the world…"

"Generally, a leading man fitted out an expedition with a few companions, partners in effort and initial expenditure, …"

"Caoutchouc was first called 'india rubber,' because it came from the Indies, and the earliest European use of it was …"

"That every word of Nordenskiöld's letter to the Anti-Slavery Society is true I am quite convinced. The entire Indian …"

"And the charming Lizardo Arana tells me in Iquitos I shall find "such splendid Indians" here, and he feels sure the r…"

"Nevertheless the Barbadians were all engaged by Arana as "agricultural labourers" or "labourers", and if Arana gave t…"

"On Sunday evening, natives brought me a mutilated lad, who's right hand had been hacked of quite recently, the cold t…"