page_title: Uele District
section_title: Belgian Congo
hierarchical_section_title: Uele District / Belgian Congo
caption_attribution_description: English: Boat voyage on the Mbomou River, 1911 Identifier: fromcongotonige01adol (find matches) Title: From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile&#160;: an account of The German Central African expedition of 1910-1911 Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Adolf Friedrich, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1873-1969 Deutsche Zentral-Afrika-expedition, 1910-1911 Subjects: Publisher: London&#160;: Duckworth Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: h of May I repairedto the palace, followed by servants bearing my gifts.I had chosen the latter with a view to gratifying Het-mans progressive tastes, and they included a bridlewith silver mountings, a blue and red saddle-cloth,a naval sword, khaki riding-breeches, as well as silks,satins, and brocades for his wives. He received meat the head of his troops, and expressed his delightwhen I presented my gifts. I took some photo-graphs, suffered my ears to be tortured by hisorchestra, and then accompanied him into the palace,where I was offered some French sparkling wine. Hepresented me to his wives, and to a number of mulattochildren, some of whom were quite attractive. Inreturn for my gifts I begged for some native objectsfor my collection. He found some difficulty in com-plying with my request, as these things had all beendone away with, but a few days later he sent me allthat he could find. From Rafai I marched back to the Mbomu River,and arrived at Kumbu. On the way I passed through Text Appearing After Image: 3 s o X&gt; co 0&gt;COre&gt;- o &gt; o Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Uele District was a district of the Congo Free State and the Belgian Congo.
  It roughly corresponded to the current provinces of Bas-Uélé and Haut-Uélé.
context_section_description: The Congo Free State was annexed by Belgium as the Belgian Congo in 1908. 
  On 1 July 1910 a court of first instance was established at Niangara to serve Uele District, one of seven in the colony.
  The  Uele District was divided  into Bas-Uele (Lower Uele) and Haut-Uele (Upper Uele) by an arrêté royal of 28 March 1912, which divided the Congo into 22 districts.
  In a major reform in 1914 these were incorporated into the Orientale Province.
  In the reorganization of 1933 Bas-Uele and Haut-Uele were reunited into Uele District, now part of the Stanleyville Province, with some territory to the east transferred to the Kibali-Ituri District.
  Stanleyville Province was renamed Orientale/Oost Province in 1947. 
  During the colonial era a railway was constructed through the region from east to west, on which the agricultural road network converged.
  The railway carried products from Uele and Ituri to Bumba, from where it was taken to Léopoldville, Boma, and on to Europe.
  In 1947 Uele District had its headquarters in Buta.
  The territories  were Bondo, Ango, Dungu, Manbetu (headquarters in Paulis), Buta, Aketi, Poko and Niangara.
  The estimated total populations was 795,721.
  In 1956 the population was:
  The population was concentrated along the axis from Paulis to Aketi.
  A 1955–1957 map showed that Uele District had once more been divided into Bas-Uele and Haut-Uele.
caption: Boat voyage on the Mbomou River, 1911
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