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A Africa, East, 84 ——, area and features, 97 ——, British explorers, 86 ——, German exploitation, 98 ——, Germans engineer rebellion, 95 ——, Germany annexes, 91 ——, Germany obtains Kilima 'Njaro, 93 ——, history, 84 ——, jewel of German possessions, 107 ——, Portuguese status, 93 ——, products, 101 ——, railways, 101 ——, terrorism of natives, 96 Africa, German wireless, 66 Africa, South West, 36 ——, area, 69 ——, boundaries, 65 ——, British operations, 82 ——, Herero rebellion, 70 ——, physical features, 73 ——, products, 74 ——, railways, 76 Africa, West, 109 ——, Germany annexes Togoland, 112 ——, Germany's entry into, 110 ——, history, 109 Agadir crisis, 30 Angra Pequena, British subjects' position, 55 ——, H.M.S. Boadicea at, 59 ——, possession of, 41

Arrowroot, 180 Asbestos, 75 Australia in the Pacific, 129 Australian Colonies, conference on the Pacific Islands, 133 Austria, emulation of Prussia, 19 B Bananas, 121, 161 Bêche-de-mer, 166 Bechuanaland, Boer action, 64 ——, Rhodes's steps, 65 Belgian Congo, 87 Bernhardi, General von, on Germany's "place in the sun," 28 ——, views on Colonies, 32 Beyers, General, defeat and death, 82 ——, rebels, 81 Birds, 162 Bismarck, Otto von, 18, 19, 21, 22, 29, 45, 57, 91, 111 Boers, the, as pioneers, 39 ——, in South West Africa, 77 ——, Republics in Bechuanaland, 64 ——, view of Germans, 47 Bönn, Dr, on native policy, 33 Botha, General Louis, 79 ——, takes field, 82 British policy in Africa, 41 —— sea supremacy, 28 —— vacillation, 24, 53

C Cape Colony, danger of being shut in, 50 Caprivi Treaty, 25, 66, 77, 83, 94 Carbonate of soda, 107 Carnarvon, Lord, refuses to annex New Guinea, 132 Castor-oil, 180 Cazou, 106 Chillies, 106 China and trade treaties, 174 —— and the Western nations, 172 ——, German wedge inserted into, 174 ——, the "mailed fist," 179 ——, war with Japan, 175 Coal, 180 Cocoa, 117, 121, 154, 166 Coffee, 101, 102, 154, 166 Congo Free State, 88 Cook, Captain, 128 Copper, 75, 180 Copra, 102, 120, 154, 162, 166 Cotton, 101, 117, 120, 166 D Damaraland, 41 Dar-es-Salaam, 95 —— bombarded, 108 De Wet, General, defeat and capture, 82 ——, rebels, 81 Diamonds, 75 Dutch in Pacific, 127, 130 E Elliott, Major, stops rebellion in South West Africa, 70 Emden, the, 184, 185

F France in the East, 176, 177 —— in West Africa, 109 Frere, Sir Bartle, 42, 46, 53, 90 G Galena, 75, 180 German Colonial Empire limits, 31 —— Colonial trade, 27 —— Colonisation Society, 20 —— Confederation of 1814, 17 —— East African Society, 91 —— Emperor, 18 —— Emperor, letter to Lord Tweedmouth, 31 —— industries, 26 —— native policy, 31 —— naval aspirations, 31 Germans and natives, 34 —— as colonisers, 32 —— in America, 33 —— in Brazil, 33 —— in Cape Colony, 33 German South West Africa, 24 Germany and native treaties, 91 —— annexes South West Africa, 62 ——, aspirations in Rhodesia, 55 ——, aspirations in South Africa, 53 —— at Angra Pequena, 56 —— "a world Power," 28 ——, deprecatory spirit, 31, 61 ——, emigration, 21 —— enters colonisation field, 23 ——, false conception of Boer character, 79 ——, first German Colony, 44 ——, ideas of expansion, 26 —— in the Pacific, 25, 124 —— in West Africa, 110

Germany in Zanzibar, 24, 89 ——, native policy, 70 ——, naval demonstration at Zanzibar, 92 ——, place in Moroccan affairs, 29 ——, population, 20 ——, secret treaty with Russia qua China, 178 ——, threat to Japan, 176, 185 ——, ultimatum to Japan, 176 ——, wireless system in Africa, 66 Gold, 75, 107, 167, 180 Grain, 101 Granville, Lord, and Bismarck, 57, 111 Great Britain in Africa, 36 Great Namaqualand and Cape Colony, 61 Guano, 74 Gum-copal, 101 H Heligoland, exchange for Zanzibar, 25, 92 Hides, 73, 102 I Iron, 75, 180 Ivory, 102, 154, 166 J Japan, German ultimatum, 176 ——, her claims in China, 175 ——, ultimatum to Germany, 183 K Kalahari Desert, 41 Kamerun, 24, 109, 113, 119, 120, 122

Kiau-Chau, 172, 178, 179, 180 ——, fall of, 185 ——, Japan's ultimatum to Germany, 183 Kiel, 18 Kilima 'Njaro, 25, 88, 93 L Lead, 75 Lebaudy, M., 88 Leopold, King of the Belgians, 87 Luderitz, Herr, at Angra Pequena, 55 ——, at Santa Lucia, 64 Luderitzbucht, 64, 82 M Magellan, 130 "Mailed fist," the, 178 Maize, 118 Marble, 74 Maritz, General, 79 Merriman, John X., 54 Mica, 107 Mohair, 73 Morocco, 29 N Nachtigal, Dr, 111 Namaqualand, Great, 41 Natives, German exploitation of, 116 New Guinea, 25, 130, 166 —— and Queensland, 132 New Zealand offers to protect Samoa, 144 O Oil, 167 P Pacific Islands, 124, 129, 131, 133

Palm kernels, 117 Palm-oil, 102, 117, 120, 154, 162 Pea-nuts, 106 Penguin eggs, 74 Peters, Dr Carl, 90 Phosphates, 156, 166 Portugal, 36, 93, 109, 124, 126 Prussian militarism, 17 Pulse, 180 Q Queensland and New Guinea, 132 R Rhodes, Cecil, 19, 54 Rhodesia, German efforts, 55 Rubber, 73, 101, 102, 117, 154, 166 Russia in China, 174 S Sago, 161 Samoa, 131, 133, 136, 144, 150, 154 ——, Calliope and hurricane, 142 ——, German annexation, 147 ——, the British occupy, 168 Sandal-wood, 166 Schleswig-Holstein, 18 "Scramble for Africa," 24 Seal skins, 74 Seddon, Hon. R., 148 Silk, 180 Silver, 74 Sisal hemp, 101 South Africa, 34, 53 Stanley, H. M., 87 Stevenson. R. L., 149 St Lucia Bay, 30 Swakopmund, 82

T Tangier, German Emperor's visit to, 29 Tannin, 107 Tasmania, 24 Timber, 107, 115, 121, 167 Tin, 75 Tobacco, 154, 166 Togoland, 66, 109, 112, 114, 117 Tortoise-shell, 166 Transvaal, German aspirations, 30 Treaty, Anglo-German, 94 Treitschke, von, and "Greater Germany," 28 Trepang, 166 U Upington, Sir Thomas, 54 V Van Diemen, 130 Von der Decken, 87 Von Weber, Ernst, 45 Von Wissmann, Captain H., 95 W Walfisch Bay, 41 Warren, Sir Charles, 54 Warren expedition, 54 Wax, 180 ——, bees', 101 Wei-hai-wei, Great Britain's lease, 177 Whales, 74 Wheat, 180 Wireless, Togoland, 118 Wool, 73 "World Power," 29 Z Zanzibar, 85, 90, 94, 96

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