Observational and Diary writing

Another type of writing by people who traveled to the Congo was observational and diary writing. Joseph Conrad, Stanley's officers, George Washington Williams, Edmund Ricard,Belgian senator (119)
There were many examples in the book of writing, done by both blacks and whites, to improve lives of the Congolese. Stanislas Lefranc a Belgium prosecutor, a catholic, and a monarchist witnessed the use of the chicotte on young boys for laughing in the presence of a white man. After witnessing these atrocities he wrote descriptions of them in newspapers and pamphlets which he published in Belgium. One description said, "The station chief selects the victims. Trebling, haggard they lie face down on the ground. Each time that the torturer lifts up the chicotte, a redish stripe appears on the skin of the pitiful victims. In a refinement of evil, some officers, and I've witnessed this, demand that when the sufferer gets up, panting, he must graciously give the military salute" (121).
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