CHAPTER XIV

THE BRITISH IN AFRICA, III

(_Egypt and Eastern Africa_)

England wrests Egypt from the French—Rise of Muhammad Ali—Suez Canal—Arabi’s rebellion—Tel-el-Kebir—Mahdi’s revolt—Gordon’s death—Lord Cromer—Lord Kitchener and the reconquest of the Sudan—Fashoda—Egypt in the 20th century—Nationalism—Development of the Sudan—Sudd-cutting—Aden and Somaliland—The ‘mad’ Mullah—Zanzibar—Sir John Kirk—Kilima-njaro—British East African Company—Sir Frederick Lugard and Uganda—Sir Gerald Portal—The Sudanese mutiny in Uganda—The Special Commission—Sleeping Sickness—Zanzibar Government—Dissolution of British East Africa Company—Mubarak’s rising—Ogadein Somalis—Big Game—‘White’ East Africa 359