"It is very curious to see how in China and Morocco the vanquished pay for the costs of the expedition that crushed them."

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Leopold II, Het hele Verhaal, Johan Op De Beeck Horizon, 2020 Prince Leopold II in a travel note after reading in the Spanish Archive "Archivo General de Indias" in Sevilla in 1862.