The government gave this right as a personal favour to Grenfell due to his friendly attitude to the authorities and the assistance that he had given them in the past.

[4] Grenfell died in 1906, and the BMS started to allow their missionaries to be openly critical of the Belgian regime.

In January of that year he made a tour of the country on the other bank of the river, and a summary of his findings was published in the London Times on 18 June 1908.

He made serious accusations that the head of the post at Lingomo was forcing the local people to harvest rubber, burning the villages of those who resisted, destroying their crops of bananas and manioc and taking men, women and children into captivity.

[5] Carrington was the first European to learn drum language, used by the local Kele people to quickly communicate over long distances.