Station 2 Quotes:
Quote 1
“When
I visited the three mud huts which serve (as the native hospital), I saw that
all of them were dilapidated. I found
seventeen sleeping sickness patients, male and female, lying about in the
utmost dirt.”
Quote 2
“[The
natives] had endured such ill-treatment at the hands of the government soldiers
in their own (land) that life had become intolerable… nothing remained for [the
natives] at home but to be killed for failure to bring in a certain amount of
rubber or to die from starvation or exposure in their attempts to satisfy the
demands made upon them.”
Quote 3
“At
other villages which I visited, I found the tax to consist of baskets, which
inhabitants had to make and deliver…a certain amount of foodstuffs.”
“…a
lad of 15 or so…showed several scars across his thighs, which he and others
around him said had formed part of a weekly payment for a recent shortage in
their supply of food.”
“Two
cases of mutilation came to my actual notice… One, a young man, both of house
hands had been… [cut] off with the butt ends of rifles against a tree. The other, a young lad of 11 or 12 years of
age, whose right hand was cut off at the wrist.”
“Of
six natives (one a girl, three little boys, one youth, and one old woman) who
had been mutilated [with their hands cut off] during the rubber regime, all
except one were dead…”
