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Having established a beachhead on the lower Congo, in 1883 Stanley set out upriver to extend Leopold's domain, employing his usual methods: negotiations with local chiefs buying sovereignty in exchange for bolts of cloth and trinkets ; playing one tribe off another ; and if need be, simply shooting an obstructive chief and negotiating with his cowed successor instead.
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