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Half of Stanley's expedition in the name of the Comité d’Etudes du Haut-Congo was composed of Belgians. There were also Germans, Englishmen, Swedes, Americans, Dutch, French and one Italian. A fifth of the Western expedition members did not survive the expedition. Table of expedition members, [1876]
NAB, Archives Emile Banning, no. 123.
NAB, Archives Emile Banning, no. 123.