rubber-getters

Updated: May 20, 2025

All the Zappo Zaps have been enrolled by the Congo Government as "soldiers"; they have a bad name and cause a lot of heart-searching to the Brussels administration, for when they are used in punitive expeditions to burn villages of recalcitrant rubber-getters, they, to use a local expression, "will eat when they have killed."

H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole - The Pools of Silence