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Identifier: outlinesofninete00myer (find matches)
Title: Outlines of nineteenth century history
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: History, Modern
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rator was carriedon almost continuously for five years (1879-1884), — long yearsof bitter labor, as he himself speaks of them. He made treatieswith over four hundred and fifty native chiefs, who ceded to himtheir sovereign rights over their lands. He founded numerousstations along the banks of the Congo and its tributaries. Bythese and like herculean labors Stanley — Stanley Africamis, ithas been suggested, should be his ennobled name — became thereal founder of what is now known as the Congo Free State, andearned a place among the great administrators and state buildersof modern times.4 4 The Congo Free State has an estimated population of thirteen millions. KingLeopold of Belgium is the head of the state, whose independence and sovereigntyhave been recognized by the United States and/most of the governments of Europe.The state is not nominally a Belgian colony; it is at the present time (1906) merelyan appanage of the Belgian crown. A railroad projected by Stanley, two hundred
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