text: Additionally, the Lado Enclave was also a popular attraction for the wealthy classes, with reports stating that "still more exhilarating was to be taken to the Lado Enclave, East Africa's equivalent to the badlands".
  The enclave was the site of "the last big elephant hunt on the continent", as dozens of hunters from around the world converged on the enclave over the years 1907 to 1909, killing several thousand elephants. The publicity from this hunt and the resulting public outrage led to the beginnings of the conservation movement.
  In his novel Elephant Song, Wilbur Smith refers to the slaughter of elephants in the Lado Enclave following the withdrawal of the Belgian colonial service in 1910, Ernest Hemingway, in his novel True at First Light, references the enclave as a wild place while the 1936 story "The Curse of Simba", refers to the enclave as the possible locale of the legendary Elephants' graveyard.
  Congo Free State and Belgian Commandants of the Enclave
  Commandants of the Lado Enclave:
  1900 – January 1903: Gustave Ferdinand Joseph Renier (s.a.)
  January 1903 – August 1903: Albéric Constantin Édouard Bruneel
  August 1903 – March 1905: Henri Laurent Serexhe
  March 1905 – January 1908: Guillaume Léopold Olaerts
  January 1908 – April 1909: Léon Nestor Preud'homme
  April 1909 – 1910: Alexis Bertrand
  1910 – June 1910: Charles Eugène Édouard de Meulenaer