Tippu Tib (Hamed bin Mohamed el Marjebi) (1837-1905). Swahili slave trader and governor. Between 1876 and 1877 he accompanied Henry Morton Stanley on an expedition along the Congo River. Engraving by W. Meyer. El Congo y la Creación del Estado Independiente de este nombre. Historia de los Trabajos y Exploraciones Verificados (The Congo and the Founding of its Free State. A Story of Work and Exploration), by Henry M. Stanley. Edited in Barcelona, Spain.

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