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Besides being an economic colony, Congo Free State was also an unknown and mysterious world for Western scientists. The Belgian geologist Jules Cornet offered his services to the Compagnie du Katanga, [1890].
SA Brussels/Anderlecht, Finoutremer I, no. 1284.
SA Brussels/Anderlecht, Finoutremer I, no. 1284.
