[439] See Sir D. Currie's paper on South Africa to the members of the Royal Colonial Institute, April 10, 1888 (Proceedings, vol. xix. p. 240).
[440] Op. cit. vol. i. p. 502.
[441] Sir C. Dilke, Problems of Greater Britain, vol. i. pp. 553-556.
[442] Bismarck: Some Secret Pages of his History, vol. iii. p. 132.
[443] Parl. Papers, Africa, No. 6 (1885), p. 2.
[444] He here referred to the Franco-German agreement of Dec. 24, 1885, whereby the two Powers amicably settled the boundaries of their West African lands, and Germany agreed not to thwart French designs on Tahiti, the Society Isles, the New Hebrides, etc. See Banning, Le Partage politique de l'Afrique, pp. 22-26.
[445] Cape Colony, Papers on Pondoland, 1887, pp. 1, 41. For the progress of German South-West Africa and East Africa, see Parl. Papers, Germany, Nos. 474, 528, 2790.
[446] For the negotiations and the Convention of February 27, 1884, see Papers relating to the South African Republic, 1887.
[447] See Sir Charles Warren's short account of the expedition, in the Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute for 1885-86, pp. 5-45; also Mackenzie's Austral Africa, vol. ii. ad init., and John Mackenzie, by W.D. Mackenzie (1902).
[448] Parl. Papers, Africa, No. 1 (1885), p. 14.