The Fall of The Congo Arabs by Sidney Langford Hinde Chapter 16 Page 13

Monseigneur van Aertzlaer, and Pere de Deken, the celebrated Asiatic traveller of the Belgian Chinese African Mission. On arriving at Congo de Lemba we found a special train awaiting our arrival. I, however, preferred to continue the march, rather than trust myself to the railway in its then insecure state; and having arrived at Matadi a couple of days later, on the 1st of September 1894, a few weeks afterwards took ship for Europe.