Place

Lake Tumba (Lake Mantumba)

Lake in the Equateur province of the Congo, where Casement travelled in 1903.

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Casement went round Lake Mantumba in 1903; missionaries told the Commission of Inquiry of depopulation around it.

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Report of the Commission of Inquiry (1905) missionary testimony on depopulation Primary record 2

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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
and went round Lake Mantumba
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
Mr. Clark also explained that the numerous wars with the State had caused the depopulation reported in the region of Lake Tumba.

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