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Tippu Tip
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“Now I am Tipo Tipo,'that is,'the gatherer together of wealth.”
Tippu Tip (1837–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have you not subdued the whole district, and could you not have taken a few hundred strong men as slaves to have carried all your superfluous stock and the small ivory, and put your one hundred guns in charge?”
Tippu Tip (1837–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You don't have to worry in the least, because in Belgium you will be able to enjoy all the benefits with which I will shower you, choose your replacement carefully, and appoint him only with my approval, until then then you will remain on your post my faithful cloak. May God guide and support you in the missions I entrust to you for the sake of my subjects, I wish that all your duties have already been carried out, so that when you come to Belgium so i can prove to you that I am a true friend my faithful cloak, I pray to God that he may protect you, Leopold.”
Tippu Tip (1837–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Leopold II, Het hele Verhaal, Johan Op De Beeck Horizon, 2020 King Leopold II in a letter to 'Tippu Tip' (The once notorious slaver, who gave up the slave trade to became an administrator in Leopold's Congo Free State.)