THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO MANUEL GONZALES, MY COMPANION AND PHOTOGRAPHER UPON MY CONGO EXPEDITION AND TO OUR BLACK BOYS, MANOELI AND TUMBA WHEN I returned to America, I had decided to express no opinion upon the public and political questions of the Congo Free State. Having found conditions there quite different from what I had expected, it was impossible for me to state my actual impressions without danger of antagonizing or offending some whom I valued as friends. Hence, on landing at New York, I refused to say anything upon those matters to several reporters who interviewed me. A little later, the _Chicago Tribune_ asked me to write upon these subjects, urging the importance of the whole…
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