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A JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN THE CONGO FREE STATE

by

MARCUS R. P. DORMAN, M.A.

Author of _A History of the British Empire in the Nineteenth
Century. The Mind of the Nation_, A Study of Political Thought in
the Nineteenth Century; _Ignorance_, a Study of the Causes and
Effects of Popular Thought; and _From Matter to Mind_.

Originally published in 1905 by J. Lebegue and Co., Brussels and
Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., Ltd., London

Dedicated by Permission to
His Majesty Leopold II,
King of Belgium and Sovereign of the Congo Free State.

PREFACE.

This journal is practically my Diary reproduced with the minimum of
editing in order that the impressions gained on the spot should be
described without modification. It was never intended for publication,
and was written only as an aid to memory. Consequently it is little more
than a collection of rough notes.

Having left England with a prejudice against the Government of the Congo
Free State and returned with a very strong feeling in its favour, I feel
however that it is my duty to publish an account of what I did see for
the benefit of those whose opinions are not already formed beyond
recall.

As in all controversies where feelings subordinate reason and people
judge more by their emotions than by evidence, many are too quick to-day
to attribute interested motives to those whose opinions are not