International records / Foreign Relations of the United States

Mr. Tisdel to Mr. Bayard .

bedient, loyal men, and rarely ever complained of the hardships which they were compelled to endure. Arriving at Vivi, there were added to my caravan one Kabinda interpreter, four Zanzibar servants, one Gold Coast cook, and twelve armed Houssas from Lagos, an English possession off: the mouth of the Niger. It will be seen that my caravan, leaving Mpozo, consisted of seventy-five persons, all told. Each Loango man carried 70 pounds, the loads being made up of canned provisions, cloth, beads, brass rods, one field tent, and supply of cooking utensils. The Berlin conference having settled the que…