I’m about 50 pages into King Leopold’s Ghost and it’s already rote with great quotes.
Congolese perceptions of slave traders
“The whites were thought to turn their captives’ flesh into salt meat, their brains into cheese, and their blood into the red wine that Europeans drank”
The Congo River
“So great is the drop and the volume of water that these 220 miles have as much hydroelectric potential as all the lakes and rivers of the United States combined”
Interesting position on British expedition.
“another expedition member was simply listed as Volunteer and Observant Gentleman.”
What’s wrong with the brits?
“At a rare calm stretch (of the Congo River) Tuckey observed, rather provincially that “the scenery was beautiful and not inferior to any on the banks of the Thames.”
