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in chain armour. She is for ever having Httle 

 campaigns with some of the seven milHon blacks 

 who inhabit her East African territory, and when 

 she has subdued them she makes soldiers of the 

 most able, and gives them bayonets for the 

 poisoned arrows they have surrendered. She has 

 erected great military-operated hospitals on the 

 coast, inaugurated flotillas, and her white popula- 

 tion in the tropical dependency consists of mili- 

 tary secretaries, police officers, captains of flotilla, 

 sergeants and other Government agents. 



Railways are advancing into the interior, and 

 much of the trade that has in the past gone from 

 Muanza and Bukoba and Shirati and the other 

 Victoria Nyanzan ports over British lines is in 

 future to go a more patriotic route. She has 

 placed ships on Tanganyika and Nyasa, and an 

 aluminium pinnace on Victoria Nyanza, and 

 when the officers who command them look over 

 to the shores of the Congo and Portuguese East 

 Africa, I have no doubt they drink a silent toast 

 to the " great day." One may observe the same 

 spirit of preparation, the same undertone of 

 force and armed strength in Tanga, some one 

 hundred and fifty miles to the north of Dar-es- 

 Salaam. 



Tanga Bay, like that of Dar-es-Salaam, is very 

 beautiful, but it is not nearly such a difficult 

 entrance. It is the coast terminus of the 

 Usambara Railway, another line of commerce, 

 dedicated to the trade gods of the Fatherland. 



Here, too, as at the capital, are solid edifices, 

 officers' residences, barracks, etc., all machinery 

 of Government. There are also hotels, stores, 

 etc., of commendable appearance and stability. 

 There is a black band, the members of which 

 dispense music, and at eve, when the bay is 



