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THE KILIMANJARO EXPEDITION. 
in life, are now animating so many old European 
nations, there is no reason why England should act as 
a political midwife, and assist in bringing to birth their 
late-born children, or neglect the wants of her own 
large family in order that her neighbours’ weaklings 
may not die of inanition. 
One of the firmest resolves of Sir John Kirk has been 
to keep Eastern Africa between 10° K. and 10° S. clear 
of foreign influences, and so to hold this littoral through 
our nominee, the present Sayyid, that whenever the 
cold fit shall be off and the hot wave of further coloni¬ 
zation flow on again—whenever the irresistible spreading 
of the English people compels it to look towards fresh 
fields of enterprise—Zanzibar, city, island, and coast, 
may not be found in hands hostile to British trade. 
To Sir John Kirk alone we owe it that the Govern¬ 
ment of Portugal has not now included the important 
Bovuma river in its 
East African posses¬ 
sions ; and the same 
person is responsible for 
having, with one English 
frigate, driven away the 
whole Egyptian fleet 
under McGillup Pasha, 
when, acting under se¬ 
cret orders from the 
Egyptian Government, 
the Khedive’s East Afri¬ 
can Expedition proceeded to annex, occupy, and 
fortify the principal ports in the Sayyid’s conti¬ 
nental dominions. About the manifold checks that 
French ambition and “ protecting ” zeal 1 have received 
1 In remarks of this character I do not wish it to he supposed that 
Fig. 3.—Mtepe (with mat sail) 
