The Congo and the Founding of its Free State

A Story of Work and Exploration Vol. I

Henry M. Stanley

• Publisher: Patavium Publishing
• Year: 2023
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781805232681
• Subtopic: African History
• Index: History

Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841 - 1904) was a Welsh-American journalist, explorer, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone, whom he later claimed to have greeted with the now-famous line: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?". He is mainly known for his search for the source of the Nile, work he undertook as an agent of King Leopold II of Belgium, which enabled the occupation of the Congo Basin region [Wikipedia]. In a prefatory note to this book Stanley describes his monumental work as "this narrative of labour, exploration and discovery, and history of a great and successful political and diplomatic achievement" and dedicates it to King Leopold. Later history may offer a different view.

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• PREFACE.
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. (Vol. I.)
• CHAPTER I. — PREVIOUS HISTORY OF THE CONGO.
• CHAPTER II. — THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF CONGO-LAND.
• CHAPTER III. — THE SEQUEL TO THE BOOK, ‘THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT.’
• CHAPTER IV. — THE AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
• CHAPTER V. — EN ROUTE TO THE CONGO.
• CHAPTER VI.— BANANA POINT.
• CHAPTER VII. — UP THE “MIGHTY” CONGO.
• CHAPTER VIII. — UP THE CONGO: FROM BOMA TO VIVI.
• CHAPTER IX. — THE FOUNDING OF VIVI: A STORY OF WORK.
• CHAPTER X. — VIVI TO ISANGILA: A RECONNAISSANCE.
• CHAPTER XI. — VIVI TO ISANGILA: ROAD-MAKING—A CURIOUS CHAPTER.
• CHAPTER XII. — VIVI TO ISANGILA—continued.
• CHAPTER XIII. — BETWEEN THE CATARACT REGIONS: TO MANYANGA.
• CHAPTER XIV. — FEVER AT ΜAΝΥAΝGΑ.
• CHAPTER XV. — A RECONNAISSANCE TO STANLEY POOL.
• CHAPTER XVI. — NGALYEMA OF NTAMO.
• CHAPTER XVII. — SETTLEMENT AT STANLEY POOL.
• CHAPTER XVIII. — THE FOUNDING OF LÉOPOLDVILLE.
• CHAPTER XIX. — THE FOUNDING OF LÉOPOLDVILLE—continued.
• CHAPTER XX. — UP THE CONGO TO LAKE LÉOPOLD II.
• CHAPTER XXI. — DISCOVERY OF LAKE LÉOPOLD II.
• CHAPTER XXII. — RETURN TO EUROPE.
• CHAPTER XXIII. — CONDITION OF AFFAIRS ON THE CONGO.
• CHAPTER XXIV. — TO STANLEY POOL.
• CHAPTER XXV. — TO BOLOBO.