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when it suggested that interest in Africa included "... all
Scotchmen, most religious Englishmen and a host of wealthy
philanthropists"
(1)
woo roughly accurate in this case;
the Nyasa agitation was almost wholly Scottish and Church
based. "All £cotchnen" should have read all Scotchmen
interested in missions, and Googrpahical societies might
have been added to the lint. Lugard on his return to
Britain in mid 1889, toured the country speaking to
Gcpgraphical societies,
(2)
and the Scottish Geographical
Society had been specially interested in Africa since its
foundation, and listened enthusiastically
Lugard and Stanley.
('3)
to lectures by
But the only examples of
a wider interest were resolutions from Edinburgh Chamber of
Commerce, and from Lancashire and Cheshire Working Meng s
Association, in 1888, protesting against the Portuguese
blockade of the Zambesi.
(4)
Salisbury had nono pcroonal ayapathy for the
(1) Zbid, extract from the S tator% lot Juno 1889.
(a)
1 Lugurd to Laws 5th January 1890. Lu rd aleo
wrote an article for the ConterKnorary Review, September 1889.
MýIYi.. ý
(3) See Scottish Capo rnphicnl 14 rn: »tno, 1890,1891.
(4+) See F F4 1? for the Working Menlo Conaervritive Aacoc"
And ý'. o. 8411224,1 for Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce
resolution, 24th July 1888.