10 THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO CHAP. 
into the Imperial British East Africa Company. In 
1895 the Foreign Office took over control of the 
Company’s possessions, and a _ Protectorate was 
proclaimed ; and ten years later the administration 
of the country was transferred to the Colonial Office. 
The last serious fighting on the island took place 
‘©KILINDINI IS . . . ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE ISLAND.” 
so recently as 1895-6, when a Swahili chief named 
M’baruk bin Rashed, who had three times previously 
risen in rebellion against the Sultan of Zanzibar, 
attempted to defy the British and to throw off their 
yoke. He was defeated on several occasions, how- 
ever, and was finally forced to flee southwards into 
German territory. Altogether, Mombasa has in 
