[449] Ibid. p. 24.
[450] Parl. Papers, Africa, No. 6 (1885), p. 2.
[451] This greatest among recent explorers of Africa died in 1895. He never received any appropriate reward from the Court for his great services to science and to the nation at large.
[452] The Geographical Journal, January 1, 1904, pp. 5, 18, 27.
[453] See La Colonisation chez les Peuples modernes, by Paul Leroy-Beaulieu; Discours et Opinions, by Jules Ferry; La France coloniale (6th edit. 1893), by Alfred Rambaud; La Colonisation de l'Indo-Chine (1902), by Chailley-Bert; L'Indo-Chine française (1905), by Paul Doumer (describing its progress under his administration); Notre Epopée coloniale (1901), by P. Legendre; La Mise en Valeur de notre Domaine coloniale (1903), by C. Guy; Un Siècle d'Expansion coloniale (1900), by M. Dubois and A. Terrier; Le Partage de l'Afrique (1898), by V. Deville.
[454] For its progress see Colonial Reports, Niger Coast Protectorate, for 1898-99. For the Franco-German agreement of December 24, 1885, delimiting their West African lands, see Banning, Le Partage politique de l'Afrique, pp. 22-26. For the Anglo-French agreement of August 10, 1889, see Parl. Papers, Africa, No. 3 (1890).