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emerge in East Africa. The Portuguese were beginning to
claim part of the interior from their colony of, 1ozambique=
there were teere of German encroachment, and fron 1885 a
wave of Arab expansion and slave trading in the Laken region,
which had in turn been sparked off by rumours of the
European scramble,
The 2-L.
ncionn had in any cane a well-developed nenne of
Empire; the S. P. G. in an account of ita pariah work
thought "... the building up of our colonies, the history of
our nq! Ioh rule in Iudiu.
«. como before us as important
matters on which lectures may be civau. "
(1)
The S. P. G.
could not help but be concerned with Zraperiul expansion,
"One thing in clear, that the influence of England and
oven of its actual Empire, increases$ and will increase, an by
some force external to itself= and wherever the flag and
the co=erce of England may force a way, it is the
oirnoat denire of the Society no the reprooontativo of the
(2)
Church to be found in the forefront. " Empire and
Z4ieoio iai were almost regarded an identical, an a leader in
the C_
hurch Minmionarl Intnlli ; cancer remarked, "how great- a
i1} SPG. Annual Reports, 1896.
(2) Ibid, i8SS4.