THE BRITISH IN AFRICA, III
(_Egypt and Eastern Africa_)
England wrests Egypt from the French—Rise of Muhammad Ali—Suez
Canal—Arabi’s rebellion—Tel-el-Kebir—Mahdi’s revolt—Gordon’s
death—Lord Cromer—Lord Kitchener and the reconquest of the
Sudan—Fashoda—Egypt in the 20th century—Nationalism—Development
of the Sudan—Sudd-cutting—Aden and Somaliland—The ‘mad’
Mullah—Zanzibar—Sir John Kirk—Kilima-njaro—British East African
Company—Sir Frederick Lugard and Uganda—Sir Gerald Portal—The
Sudanese mutiny in Uganda—The Special Commission—Sleeping
Sickness—Zanzibar Government—Dissolution of British East Africa
Company—Mubarak’s rising—Ogadein Somalis—Big Game—‘White’ East
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