Travels in West Africa (National Geographic Society, 2002; originally published 1897), p. 36.

biggest pots: Harold A. Innis,

The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History (University of Toronto Press, 1999; originally published 1930), p. 18.

the Micmac joke: Father Chrestien Le Clercq, in his

New Relation of Gaspesia , tr. and ed. W. F. Ganong (The Champlain Society, 1910), p. 277.

Alfonso I’s letter: quoted by Adam Hochschild,

King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Houghton Mifflin, 1998), p. 13.

Swanzy’s testimony: UK, House of Commons,

Report from the Select Committee on the West Coast of Africa ; together with the minutes of evidence, appendix, and index. Part I,

Report and Evidence , Parliamentary Papers (1842), Vols. XI, XII, questions 467 and 468.

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