 They reached Spanish Guinea in February and surrendered to the unaligned representatives of Spain under the Restoration . The Spanish government of Álvaro Figueroa Torres gave the Beti land to settle and agreed to transport the Germans to the nearby island of Fernando Po . Atangana and members of his family accompanied them . In 1918 , the Germans sent Atangana and six other chiefs to Spain , where they would witness if necessary that the Germans had treated their African subjects humanely . In September 1919 , Atangana had an audience with King Alfonso XIII of Spain and urged him to support the Germans in these proceedings . Atangana remained in Madrid for two years and stayed a month in Barcelona to retrieve money he had deposited through the Basel Mission . 
