Note 16 — Chapter XV · BELGIAN CAMPAIGNS AGAINST THE ARABS

A nephew of Hamed-ben-Mohamed, better known as Tippo Tip,—i. e., “winking the eye,”—an Arab slave merchant, invested with the government of Stanley Falls by King Leopold, at the instance of Stanley, he having, in consideration of a monthly salary, bound himself to repress all slave-hunting and slave-dealing below the Falls.