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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 13, 1908

Note and Comment

In the Kongo Country

THE following short extract from the report of a Baptist missionary, Mr. W. C. Murdock, is a conclusive answer to the defense of King Leopold’s administration in Kongoland:—

The Crown Domain west of Lake Leopold has been depopulated to an alarming extent. There are evidences of it everywhere. I passed through at least three districts which had once contained very large towns, but which are now completely empty. The clumps of palms are there, and the sites of the houses are indicated by a jungle of tall, strong grass, and the bunches of rank tobacco plants. There is not a house to be seen.

And what do the natives get? I was present at the solemn farce of buying the rubber, and what I saw was enough to make one ashamed of being white.