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base. It is for us to hold or bolt, " From a problem
for the humanitarians, it had become an issue of British
prestige. The Ti mea etatod in April 1E09, - "We have had
the dishonour of Khartoum and of I4ajuba Iiill. Pray God we
may not have Nyasa added to the list. Lone of honour for
a nation is worse than the loss of territory, worse even
that the loss of a battle. "
(2)
V. L. Cameron,, planning
a relief expedition to help Lugard in ! 1ynsa in 1889, urged,
"By the memories of Livingotono and Gordon I appeal to the
Britiah`nation not to abandon Lugardf and not to wait until
it is too late"
{3)
By 1889, Nyasaland was connected with the Cape-Cairo
route ambitions. It formed a link in the chain of British
territory, stretching down from Egypt and Uganda` and up
from Rhodesia where the Imperial British South Africa
Company which received its charter in June 1889, wan
operating, It thus acquired particular Imperial importance,
summed up in an article in the Pall Hall Gazette on 28th May
(1a Horace Wailer, Na seland Great iiritain'n cane n . pinnt
Port u_i 1, London 1 890, p" 1.
(2) Lugard I ISS. SN nnnl* extract from the Tieera of
23rd April 1669,
(3) d1 extract from the Timen 11th May 1889,