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return presents to the chiefs of that region who had political relatioiis 

 with him. 



The author of this book happened to be the person selected to command 

 this expedition, having not long since returned from an exploration of 



175. CHIEF LUKA (OF BUSOGA), THE EXECUTIONER OF BISHOl' HAXMXLJTON. (LUBA IS THE SEATED 

 figure; THE OTHER TWO ARE. HIS SON AND, IN THE BACKGROUND, ONE OF THE SUDANESE 

 EX-MUTINEERS WHO REVOLTED AT LUBA's FORT IN 1897) 



the Lower Congo under the a^gis of Stanley, then laying the foundations 

 of the Congo Free State. The political result of his work on Kilimanjaro 

 was the conclusion of treaties which very nearly brought the whole of 

 that mountain within the British sphere, and which at any rate were the 

 basis from which the Imperial British East Africa Company sprang. This 



