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Portuguese would then be asked to let it through.
did not of course satisfy the Company which adopted a lofty
tone
- "It is not for us to remind your Lordship that the
Zambesi was discovered by David Livingstone, and has since
been developed by British capital. " (? )
a
(I)
On 24th April
This
1888, a London meeting was convened by the Scottish missions,
attended by Lord Balfour of Burleigh,
and Lord Rocebary.
(4)
(3)
Lord Aberdeen
A deputation to Salisbury on 27th
April followed at which the three resolutions passed at
the meeting were presented. The first two, urging free
transit for British goods on the Zambesi and the suppression
of the slave trade, had caused no difficulty, but the final
resolution which had originally ailed for a British sphere
of in luence in Nyanaland, had been altered to a vaguer
(1) F. ý 84 1 21 Africa Slaver Trades Domestic and Various
12th"25th May 1888* , F. C. to Lakoo Company 17th May 18881
(2) Ibid Lakes Company to F. O. 23rd flay 1888.
(3) Lord Balfour of Bur1eiCh wan the organiser of the
Scottish Conservatives and a friend of Lord Salisbury'o
(4) Lee Church Monthly vna`l-tieni'onary Records June 18880