Being a German, I suppose he preferred to share his secret with his own crowd.

I dare say he thought of telling Stanley but judged that the 'Rock breaker' might demand a too large share.

The value of the stuff must be so enormous that it's almost worth going to war about, from the point of view of a nation hungry for new colonies.

Emin is dead, and it's likely he left no exact particulars behind him.

To my personal knowledge the Germans have had a swarm of spies for a long time operating beyond the Congo border." "Were you looking for the stuff yourself ?" I asked.
"Oh, no," he laughed.