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Congo Free State
September 24, 1885 issue

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The article presents information on the book "The Congo and the Founding of its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration," by Henry M. Stanley. It is to be regretted that the experiment of the Congo Free state has been made with such a flourish of trumpets. An enterprise of this character, if successful, must naturally be of slow growth. The publicity and undue importance given to it, therefore, by the Berlin Conference in Germany have done it an injury in fostering extravagant hopes as to immediate results which are necessarily doomed to disappointment. Its history, from its origin to the close of the Conference by which its position as a State was established, shows plainly that the simply pioneer work has been done.

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CONGO & the Founding of its Free State: A Story of Work & Exploration, The (Book); STANLEY, Henry Morton; CONGRESSES & conventions; BOOKS & reading; CONGO (Democratic Republic); BERLIN (Germany); GERMANY
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