Place

Boma

Port on the lower Congo river; seat of the Congo Free State's government and of the British consulate in Casement's time.

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In Boma

Boma is where the Congo Free State’s Commission of Inquiry arrived on 5 October 1904 and where Roger Casement was British consul.

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The Congo: a report of the Commission of Enquiry appointed by the Congo Free State government (English translation, 1906), Commission of Enquiry of the Congo Free State, translated by G. P. Putnam's Sons (Project Gutenberg), 30 Oct 1905. Primary record
The Commission remained in Boma from the 5th until the 23rd of October.
Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo (Africa No. 1, 1904), with the Congo State's note of 17 September 1903 and its annexes, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Accounts and Papers 1904 (Internet Archive copy), Feb 1904. Primary record
Correspondence and report from His Majesty’s Consul at Boma respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo.

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