Emmanuel Burden, merchant, of Thames St., in the city of London, exporter of hardware : a record of his lineage, speculations, last days and death . noisy continental claimantsto similar honours, were the pioneers. SirHenry Jeorz signed the first treaty with theNoyo of Naya in 1882, thereby overriding theprevious arrangement which that sovereign hadsigned with some German adventurer. Nextyear a similar footing was obtained in the townof Saraka and the surrounding district by thegenius of Captain Ronald, who deposed andexiled the Alemami, forbade polygamy, putdown the slave trade with a rigorou
Emmanuel Burden, merchant, of Thames St., in the city of London, exporter of hardware : a record of his lineage, speculations, last days and death . noisy continental claimantsto similar honours, were the pioneers. SirHenry Jeorz signed the first treaty with theNoyo of Naya in 1882, thereby overriding theprevious arrangement which that sovereign hadsigned with some German adventurer. Nextyear a similar footing was obtained in the townof Saraka and the surrounding district by thegenius of Captain Ronald, who deposed andexiled the Alemami, forbade polygamy, putdown the slave trade with a rigorous hand,publicly burned the Sacred Umbrella, and wason the point of executing a Belgian botanist,when news of his exploits reached England,and he was suddenly recalled by the Secretaryof State for War, a personal friend who hadlong mourned him as dead. Ronald was given an excellent post, and hassince enjoyed all that public repute and awealthy marriage can afford, but the error ofhis recall was the beginning of a series ofofficial l;lunders, which all but forfeited thefruit of so much private heroism. So longr as Mr Gladstone continued bv his.
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