[2] A colonial map from 1894 shows the Bussira Manene trading post in this location, upstream from the Lengué (Salonga) River and downstream from Bocoté (Bokote).

[3] As of 1 January 1894 the Société anonyme belge pour le commerce du Haut-Congo (SAB) had 83 factories and posts, including some in the French territory to the west of the Congo and Ubangi rivers.

A map shows the company had posts along the upper Ruki River (i.e. the Busira) at Bilakamba, Bombimba, Bussira Manene, Moniaca, Bocoté and Yolongo.

[4] The American doctor Louis Jaggard (1877–1951) at the mission spoke in 1917 with scorn of the 30 or so traders at Bussira, 4 miles (6.4 km) away, who came to him for treatment.

Ruijders took him to Itiki in the Buch-Bloc region in 1909, where the local SAB manager Van Canter felt strongly that Catholicism would destroy the authority of Europeans over "natives".