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Page 298 - The principal field of the operations of The British South Africa Company (in this Our Charter referred to as "the Company") shall be the region of South Africa lying immediately to the north of British Bechuanaland, and to the north and west of the South African Republic, and to the west of the Portuguese Dominions.
Page 66 - Where years had elapsed since the clearings had been abandoned, we found a young forest, and the spaces between the trees choked with climbing plants, vegetable creepers, and tall plants ; this kind had to be tunnelled through, before an inch of...
Page 66 - Nothing stirs then : insect-life is still asleep ; the forest is still as death ; the dark river, darkened by lofty walls of thick forest and vegetation, is silent as a grave ; our heart-throbs seem almost clamorous, and our inmost thoughts loud. If no rain follows this darkness, the sun appears from behind the cloudy masses, the mist disappears, life wakens up before its brilliancy. Butterflies scurry through the air, a solitary ibis croaks an alarm, a diver flies across the stream, the forest is...
Page 297 - August, 1887, in which it was stated that Her Majesty's Government protested against any claims in no degree founded on occupation, and that they could not recognise the sovereignty of Portugal in territory of which she had not practically taken possession, and in which she was represented by no authority capable of exercising the ordinary rights of sovereignty. You will formally renew this protest.
Page 304 - ... permitted ; and no monopoly or favour in matters of trade can be granted. The subjects of either Power will be at liberty to settle freely in their respective territories situated within the free trade zone.
Page 302 - France to the south of her Mediterranean possessions, up to a line from Say on the Niger, to Barruwa on Lake Chad, drawn in such a manner as to comprise in the sphere of action of the Niger Company all that fairly belongs to the Kingdom of Sokoto; the line to be determined by the Commissioners to be appointed.
Page 66 - These consisted of creepers varying from one-eighth of an inch to fifteen inches in diameter, swinging across the path in bowlines, or loops, sometimes massed and twisted together, also of a low, dense bush, occupying the sites of old clearings, which had to be carved through before a passage was possible. Where years had elapsed since the clearings had been abandoned we found a young forest, and the spaces between the trees choked with climbing plants, vegetable creepers, and tall plants. This kind...
Page 252 - Cromer) was able to inform the British government that the situation was such that "it would take a series of untoward events seriously to endanger the stability of Egyptian finance and the solvency of the Egyptian government.
Page 250 - No State assistance of any kind is given, not an immigrant has been imported, not an acre of Arab land has been confiscated, and the whole civil charges borne by France do not exceed £6000 a year. A very short time ago the interior of the country was practically a terra incognita ; now it is being rapidly opened out to European enterprise, and it promises soon to rival Algeria in what must always be the principal industry of North Africa, viticulture. Commerce also has increased...
Page 303 - Rovuma to the point of confluence of the Msinje; thence it runs westward along the parallel of that point till it reaches Lake Nyassa; thence striking northward, it follows the eastern...