Text: Expert opinion

Year: 1905.

Publisher: Punch magazine.

Artist: Bernard Partridge.

Additional information: Cartoon shows the Belgian Leopold II speaking with the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Leopold complains about the “silly fuss they’re making about these so-called atrocities in my Congo property”, while Abdul Hamid replies that he needn’t worry: “Only talk, my dear boy. They won’t do anything. They never touched me!”