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THE KILIMA-NJAR 0 EXPEDITION. 
fame of the mighty English cc manowari,” and the 
quiet, resolute man who directs their operations, is 
yearly carried farther and farther into Central Africa 
by the very men who have suffered most by our anti- 
slavery policy. It is really astonishing to find that 
there are villages on Kilima-njaro where the naked and 
savage inhabitants know of no other fact beyond their 
physical horizon, except that towards the rising sun 
there is a vast sheet of water, on which mighty iron 
canoes deal indiscriminate death to the enemies of a 
great white man, sometimes called the “Baloza,” 2 who 
is the sultan of the coast. 
Pursuant to these ideas Mandara had sent presents 
and greetings to Sir John Kirk, seeking his friendship, 
and during my stay on the mountain, Mandara applied 
to me for a Union Jack to fly over his mud and wattle 
citadel, as a sign that he was under the protection of 
my country. As I feared this emblem of just rule 
miodit be made to cover a multitude of sins committed 
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in its name, and that the slave-raids of this African 
prince might be justified by the British ensign which 
his bandits would flaunt before them, 1 transmitted 
this request to the consideration of Sir John Kirk. 
Various complications prevented its concession, and 
eventually, frightened at the rumoured coming of the 
Germans, Mandara accepted the suzerainty of the 
Sultan of Zanzibar. 
Mandara has seen all the Europeans who have ever 
visited Kilima-njaro. Rebmann, the missionary who 
first told us snow-mountains existed in Africa, passed 
through his country, when Mandara was, according to 
his own account, about three years old. Von der 
2 Baloza (Baluz) is a Persian term for consul, which is used in 
Zanzibar to indicate Sir John Kirk. 
