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He is the man who really drives the Congo machine, the last wheel in the engine, but the most important; the man whose deeds are not to be written. Verhaeren's living room in the frame house was furnished with steamer deck chairs, a table and some shelves.
They were heavily laden, for most of them had from ten to twenty Kwanga on their heads, and besides this burden they were mostly women several of them had babies slung on their backs. These people belonged to a village which lay within Verhaeren's district. The tax laid on this village was three hundred cakes of cassava to be delivered at Yandjali every eight days.
They turned from the degrading sight and went back to Verhaeren's house for dinner. Just after daybreak next morning the expedition started. Berselius, Adams, the gun-bearers and Félix headed the line; a long way after came the porters and their loads, shepherded by half a dozen soldiers of the state specially hired for the business.
There was no picture torn from an illustrated paper adorning the place, as in Verhaeren's abode, but on a rudely constructed shelf there lay just the same stack of "official letters," some of these two years old, some of last month, all dealing with trade.
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