Person
Lontulu
Senior chief of Bolima who brought 110 twigs to the Commission of Inquiry, each for a life lost to the rubber system, in missionaries' notes of the hearing.
Connections 2
involved in
- Commission of Inquiry of the Congo Free State (1904-05) testified, in the missionaries' notes Scholarship & press 1
appears in
- The Crime of the Congo (1909) Doyle prints the missionaries' account of his testimony Scholarship & press 1
Proof 1 source
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The Crime of the Congo, by Arthur Conan Doyle, Hutchinson (Project Gutenberg), 1909.
Scholarship & press
Lontulu, the senior chief of Bolima, came with twenty witnesses, which was all the canoe would hold.
He brought with him one hundred and ten twigs, each of which represented a life sacrificed for rubber.
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