. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . the introduction ofMr. William Mackinnon and Sir John Kirk. He pre-sented me with a fine sword, a shirazi blade I shouldsay, richly mounted with gold, and a magnificentdiamond ring, which quite makes Tippu-Tibs eyeswater. With the sword is the golden belt of HisHighness, the clasp of which bears his name in will be useful as a sign, if I come before Arabs,of the good understanding between the Prince andmyself; and if I reach the Egyptian officers, some ofwhom are probably illiterate, they must ac
. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . the introduction ofMr. William Mackinnon and Sir John Kirk. He pre-sented me with a fine sword, a shirazi blade I shouldsay, richly mounted with gold, and a magnificentdiamond ring, which quite makes Tippu-Tibs eyeswater. With the sword is the golden belt of HisHighness, the clasp of which bears his name in will be useful as a sign, if I come before Arabs,of the good understanding between the Prince andmyself; and if I reach the Egyptian officers, some ofwhom are probably illiterate, they must accept thesword as a token that we are not traders. You will have seen by the papers that I have takenwith me sixty-one soldiers—Soudanese. My object has 68 IN DARKEST AFRICA. 1887. been to enable them to speak for me to the Soudanese March 9. q£ Equatoila. The Egyptians may affect to disbelieve Go^od Hope firmans and the writing of Nubar, in which case these Soudanese will be pushed forward as living witnesses of my commission. I have settled several little commissions at Zanzibar. POKTRAIT OF TIPPU-TIB. satisfactorily. One was to get the Sultan to sign theconcessions which Mackinnon tried to obtain a longtime ago. As the Germans have magnificent territoryeast of Zanzibar, it was but fair that England shouldhave some portion for the protection she has accordedto Zanzibar since 1841. The Germans appeared to LITTLE COMMISSIONS AT ZANZIBAR. 69 have recognized this, as you may see by the late Anglo- Agreement. France had already obtained an ^^^^ ^immense area in West Africa. All the world had agreed Go^d Hojeto constitute the domain of King Leopold, on which hehad spent a million sterling, as the Independent Stateof the Congo. Portugal, which is a chronic grumbler,and does little, and that little in a high-handed, illiberalmanner, has also been graciously considered by theEuropean Powers ; but England, which had sent out herexplorers, Livingstone, Burton, Speke, Grant
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