Letter from Colonel Strauch to HMS, about the Anglo-Portuguese treaty, conditions for the people of the Congo to obtain their independence, begging him to convoke a palabre to bring the native chiefs to conclude a convention and send one or two of them to Brussels with the power of concluding treaties of commerce, instructions in case of violent aggression by agents of a European power, begging of him to transport a cannon and ammunition to Leopoldville to give the natives “an idea of your power”, on the treaty made by Louis Valcke, the enlistment of Houssas, a request by the Livingstone Inland Mission for a parcel of ground at Stanley Pool, A.I.H.C., Brussels, 30 April 1883

Letter from Colonel Strauch to HMS, about the Anglo-Portuguese treaty, conditions for the people of the Congo to obtain their independence, begging him to convoke a palabre to bring the native chiefs to conclude a convention and send one or two of them to Brussels with the power of concluding treaties of commerce, instructions in case of violent aggression by agents of a European power, begging of him to transport a cannon and ammunition to Leopoldville to give the natives “an idea of your power”, on the treaty made by Louis Valcke, the enlistment of Houssas, a request by the Livingstone Inland Mission for a parcel of ground at Stanley Pool, A.I.H.C., Brussels, 30 April 1883, SA.931. Archives Henry Morton Stanley.

Letter from Colonel Strauch to HMS, about the Anglo-Portuguese treaty, conditions for the people of the Congo to obtain their independence, begging him to convoke a palabre to bring the native chiefs to conclude a convention and send one or two of them to Brussels with the power of concluding treaties of commerce, instructions in case of violent aggression by agents of a European power, begging of him to transport a cannon and ammunition to Leopoldville to give the natives “an idea of your power”, on the treaty made by Louis Valcke, the enlistment of Houssas, a request by the Livingstone Inland Mission for a parcel of ground at Stanley Pool, A.I.H.C., Brussels, 30 April 1883, SA.931. Archives Henry Morton Stanley. Accédé April 29, 2026.