First edition. ‘Johnston was invited, in 1884, on behalf of the Royal Society, to undertake a scientific mission to explore Mount Kilimanjaro and its surroundings. The mission had also covert political objects; and Johnston was accredited by the Foreign Office to (Sir) John Kirk, the British agent and consul-general at Zanzibar. On this expedition he made valuable contributions to scientific knowledge, and effected treaties with the chiefs of local native tribes by which they accepted British protection. These treaties formed the basis of the subsequent foundation of the British East Africa Protectorate (1895), now represented by Kenya Colony and Uganda’ (DNB). Johnston ‘produced an excellent map of the Kilimanjaro region and pushed exploration higher than before, reaching c. 16,300 ft’ (Neate).
Hosken p. 110; Neate J29; Perret 2392.
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