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■of the Protectorate. The summer and autumn of 1894 were spent in making 
these arrangements, the results of which were that the Civil Service was hence¬ 
forth efficiently organised, and the South Africa Company’s subsidies were 
devoted to the administration of the Company’s own territory; the direct 
administration of which was taken over from me by the Company in 1895. 
The Imperial Government repaid to the South Africa Company and to Mr. 
Rhodes a proportion of the sums spent on the defence and development of the 
Protectorate. 
The Civil Service of the Protectorate and the Postal Service were put on a 
satisfactory footing. A postage stamp 1 was designed and issued. Arrangements 
were made for taking over the lake gunboats from the Admiralty and working 
them henceforth by the Administration of the Protectorate. 
Freed from all future anxieties concerning finance I started for India to 
THE BEACH AT MAKANJIRA’S (PRESENT SITE OK FORT MAGUIRE) 
settle the question of the Indian contingent on a definite basis with the 
Indian authorities. 
A very satisfactory arrangement was come to, lasting six years, which 
permits of our employing as many as 200 Sikhs from the Indian Army in 
British Central Africa. 
I left India on the 1st of April, 1895, and reached Chinde on the 19th of 
that month, and Zomba on the 4th of May. I found that during my absence 
everything had proceeded smoothly until the early spring of 1895, when the 
Yao chief Kawinga, whose attitude had long been threatening, had attempted 
a very serious attack on the British Protectorate. He had felt his way by first 
raiding the villages of a chief named Malemia, in whose territory the Church of 
1 The design for this was slightly altered of late and differently printed, but remains practically the 
same as that devised in 1894. It consists of the Coat of Arms of the Protectorate (which is on the 
cover of this book). This Coat of Arms was designed by me, with the assistance and advice of Sir Albert 
Woods It may be described as a shield sable, with a pile or, and over all a fimbriated cross argent, bearing 
an inescutcheon gules on which is imprinted the Royal Arms in or. The shield is poised on an outspread 
map of Africa ; supporters, two negroes, one carrying a pick and the other a shovel ; crest, a coffee-tree in 
full bearing; motto, “Light in darkness.” Put in plain language the shield is intended to illustrate our 
three colours, black, yellow, and white, with a touch of the English red. Into the sable mass of Africa 
I have driven a pile (wedge) of Indian yellow. Over all is the white cross, representing in its best 
significations the all-embracing white man. The inescutcheon of English red show's the Arms of the 
protecting Power. The motto, “ Light in darkness,” was the suggestion of the late Sir Percy Anderson. 
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