HISTOTtY OP TIIK PROTECTORATE TERRITORIES 221) 



return ]iresents to the chiefs of tliat region who had political relations 

 with him. 



The autlior of this buok hapj^jened to he the person selected to coniniaiid 

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



175. CHIEF LUBA (OF BlMiuAI. lUK i:\ Ki I 1 h 'Ml: <>t l;l.-llcil' II AN M N- . I ' 'N . ill LA is THp: SKATED 

 FIGLRE; the other two AHE his son and, in the BACKLiKOtND, ONE OF THE SUDANESE 

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



the Lower Congo under the cegis 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 



