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" Kilimanjaro " with a mission station ; pointing out 

 that this would appeal to the British public, and 

 secure a base of operations into the interior, strength- 

 ening the British position in East Africa. Caravans 

 could go from Bogoyomo (the port of entry) in 

 winter, and post runners in summer would keep 

 communication open. The highland was perfectly 

 healthy, and commands Ugii on Lake Tanganyika, 

 to the west and Victoria Nyansa on the north. They 

 fully agreed but said that the British Government 

 would never move in the matter. The whole 

 territory, including Kilimanjaro has now been 

 painted yellow on the map by Germany, (1911). 

 The many lives lost and millions spent by England 

 in suppressing the Arab Slave Trade have been 

 thrown away as far as the vast territory claimed by 

 Germany is concerned. We now retain Zanzibar, 

 Pemba Islands and Mombasa, and the territory to 

 the east of Lake Victoria Nyansa. 



Whilst travelling on the Continent, disquieten- 

 ing news caused us to leave sooner than we other- 

 wise would have done, and regretfully we left for 

 England. We landed at Southampton on a miser- 

 able wet Sunday, I thought it was the most dismal 

 place I had ever seen. I have never got over my 

 impresssion of the English climate received on this 

 visit to England, after an absence of exactly 30 

 years, that is from 1850 to 1880. 



