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to the Foreign Office. The Protectorate of Zaiiziljar is a native state 

 theoretically administered In- the Sultan and the ministers Nvhom he 

 appoints. The representative of the British Government at Zanziliar is 

 at the present moment also Commissioner and Consul-General for Kast 

 Africa, a portion of the coast-lands of the East African Protectorate 

 being regarded as part of the Sultan of Zanzibar's dominions, and 

 administered to some extent in his name. This coast Province of 

 Sayyidieh is still subject to the inconvenient and harassing treaty rights 

 of other European Powers, rights which were unfortunately not got rid 

 of (as they should have been) when the British Government assumed a 



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Protectorate over Zanzibar. Negotiations for the aliolitiou of these special 

 treaty rights are in progress with Germany and France, but have not, 

 I believe, been yet brought to a successful issue. Consequently a small 

 portion of the East Africa Protectorate is being administered urder rather 

 exceptional conditions as though it were a portion of the territories ruled 

 by the Sultan of Zanzibar. 



In addition to these three East African Protectorates may be mentioned 

 Somaliland, a territory immediately opposite Aden, which consists of a con- 

 siderable slice of the Xorthern Somali coast-lands. To any one able to take 

 an unprejudiced and large-minded view of the present situation in East 

 Africa, it must appear highly desii-able that all of these four Protectorates — 



