A Decree appointing additional members upon the Commission for the Protection of Natives, March 23, 1901 572 The British Dispatch to European Powers calling attention to charges alleged against the Congo Free State, and inviting consideration thereof. August 8, 1903 573 Letter from Sir Constantine Phipps, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister at Brussels, transmitting text of the Note and its enclosures addressed by the Congo Government to the Powers parties to the Act of Berlin, replying to the British Dispatch of August 8, 1903 577 Rejoinder of the Congo Government to the Report, dated December 11, 1903, of Mr. Roger Casement, his Britannic Majesty’s Consul at Boma, wherein, amongst others, charges of maltreatment of natives are made. March 12, 1904 590 Memorandum on the part of the Congo Government regretting that the British Foreign Office did not deem it necessary to communicate to it previous Consular Reports, the names of persons accused and generally such specific information as would enable the Congo Government to prosecute offenders, etc., together with the remarks of the Secretary-General of the Congo Free State upon the debates in the British Parliament as to partitioning that State between the Powers whose possessions surround it. May 14, 1904 610 Features of the Land System in the African Colonies of Germany, Great Britain, France, and Portugal 612 Concessionaires, Firms, and Trading Companies in the Congo Free State 616 Officials of the Congo Free State 617 INDEX 619 ERRATA Illustration, page 92, _read_ Basoko _for_ Baneko. Illustration, page 130, _read_ Turumbus _for_ Barumbus. Illustration, page 216, _read_ Commissary-General. Illustration, page 226, _read_ House _for_ Mission. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE His Majesty Leopold II., King of the Belgians _Frontispiece_ (From a painting by Jef Leempoels.) Native Huts Built of Leaves (Aruwimi) 4 Elephant Farm on the Bomokandi 8 Basongolo Chiefs (Lokandu) 12 House of Governor-General, Boma 14 The Congo at Lokandu 18 View of the Port of Leopoldville (Stanley Pool) 26 Making a Road (175 kilometres) for Automobiles (Kwango) 30 A Saddle Ox, Kassai 34