. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. FOUNDING THE PROTECTORATE 91 headman, and my small expedition of fifteen Makua in some considerable trepidation. The Lakes Company half feared that Jumbe was going to join the Arab movement at the north end. At this time, too, all Arabs in Central Africa were much incensed against Europeans by their quarrels with the Germans and the Belgians. The way in which the}- would receive me, there- fore, was very doubtful. Makanjira on the opposite coa
. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. FOUNDING THE PROTECTORATE 91 headman, and my small expedition of fifteen Makua in some considerable trepidation. The Lakes Company half feared that Jumbe was going to join the Arab movement at the north end. At this time, too, all Arabs in Central Africa were much incensed against Europeans by their quarrels with the Germans and the Belgians. The way in which the}- would receive me, there- fore, was very doubtful. Makanjira on the opposite coast had recently stripped and flogged a British Consul and held him up to ransom, and no measures had been taken to avenge this insult. After landing near the mouth of the Bua river I sent Ali Kiongwe ahead to interview Jumbe and to deliver to him the letters that I had brought from the Sultan of Zanzibar. On my journey down the east coast of Africa I had stopped at Zanzibar, and had conferred with the late Sir Gerald Portal, then Acting Consul-General at that place, on the subject. OUTSKIRTS i'l Km AKO'l A of my mission to Lake Nyasa. Mr. Portal fas he then was) had interested himself very much in this undertaking to make peace with the Arabs, and urged the Sultan Khalifa bin Said (Whose own envoy previously dispatched had been unsuccessful in bringing the Arabs to reasonj to provide me with the most authoritative letters to his representatives on Lake Nyasa, notably to the Jumbe of Kotakota, who was the Sultan's ostensible wali, or representative. The Sultan Khalifa willingly gave these letters, which were most potent in effecting the subsequent results. Some hours after Ali Kiongwe had started for Kotakota, a Swahili soldier of Jumbe's came rushing down into our camp, dropped on one knee and seized me by the leg, as an act of homage. He then said, " Master, do not be alarmed, Jumbe sends us to greet the representative of the great Queen and of the Sayyid of Zanzibar, and
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