Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events- embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, (14774124844)

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Title: Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York: Appleton
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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eturn to Pangani and Tanga for some time,and accepted the arrangement proposed bySeyyid Khalifa, to the effect that the Sultanwas to appoint his own governors and garri-sons, and administer justice; and that the Ger-mans were to nominate natives to superintendcustoms, and not to attempt to land at theports until the population was willing to re-ceive them. The German flag was not to bere-hoisted. The coast population would notaccept an arrangement that contemplated thereinstatement of the Germans. Gen. Matthews,commanding the troops of the Sultan, who wassent to reassert the Sultans authority in Pan-gani, was defeated and driven away by therebels. The German gun - boats thereuponshelled Pangani and other places. Blockade of the Coast.—The English colonialproject, which had been begun in order to pre-vent the Germans from acquiring dominionover all the lake-region and the trade-routes,suffered likewise. The Sultan had lost all au-thority on the mainland. More than 1,000 ZANZIBAR. 851
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852 ZANZIBAR. Indian subjects of Great Britain, engaged intrading and agriculture, had abandoned theirpossessions and fled to Zanzibar. British mis-sionary settlements had been destroyed, andsome of the missionaries who could not escapewere besieged in their stations. Lord Salis-bury, who had made the British Governmenta partner in the German scheme for the con-quest of the most productive regions of theAfrican Continent, accepted Prince Bismarcksproposal to fight the slave-traders and restoreEuropean prestige by blockading the coast.Portugal, having important colonial intereststo conserve, and Italy, ambitious of extendingher influence in East Africa, were induced topromise assistance with their war-vessels inthe naval blockade. France has no importantcolonial interests in this part of the continent,but she has some commerce with the Africantribes, which must suffer by a blockade. TheArab dhows, when chased, have been accus-tomed to display the French flag, which usuallyhas saved the