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" Congo Atrocities," shows how dangerous it is to accept this 

 sort of evidence, 



A case in our own experience may serve to show the 

 reader what animus exists against the Belgians. In spite of 

 the fact that nothing could have exceeded the kindness of 

 Commandant Sarolea and the officers at Niangara in the 

 sad circumstances of poor Gosling's illness and death, a report 

 reached Khartoum that he had died of starvation in Belgian 

 territory, with the natural result that the Anglo-Egyptian 

 Government sent a request to the Commandant Superieur of 

 the Welle District to know if it was true. I was in Faraggi 

 at the time the message came through, being very kindly 

 entertained by the Belgians, although they themselves 

 were suffering from a shortage of food, owing to their supplies 

 having been stopped from Khartoum in consequence of the 

 Bahr-el-Ghazel affair. When the Belgians showed me the 

 message, I blushed for shame. 



No, the Congo dragon is dead and it is unseemly to go 

 on gibbeting the carcase. 



