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Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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. Her; the tableland incleft by a huge choHin, known hh tho Great liiftValley, and in the chaHrn, of ifnrnenwt deptli,lie lakes NyaHH, Tanganyika and Kivu. Tliewalin of the choftrn tower Hheer above the lakrn. ati free to the British, who own its southernshorfH, and tho Belgians, to whom IxIong if>?eoHtcrn coawt, as to the Gennaiis. Inimediatc!ly eoHt of Kivu is tho mountainous andthickly (populated district of Ruanda, a feudalState Htill governed by its own Sultan in I ill 4.though Gonnan sovereignty was acknowledged.Iluanda is farned for its countloBs herds offdttle and its healthy climate. It also containsthe most remote oi tho liE THE WAN
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BRITISH WATER-SUPPLY COLUMN. Nile. These gather iiito one and, as theKagera, flow into tlie Victoria Nyanza justwithin the bounds of the Uganda Protectorate.It was one of the ironies of the partition ofAfrica that this central region of the easternImlf of the continent fell to Gennany, for inits exploration and early development theyhad had scarcely any part. The first Europeansto hold sway over the seaports were the Portu-guese—some vestiges of their rule still remain.In the nineteenth century the Arab Sultansof Zanzibar had succeeded to the sovereigntyover the coast of the neighbouring mainland.It was one of these Sultans, Seyyid )\Iajid, whofirst recognized the advantages that the per-fectly sheltered harbour of Dar-es-Salaam(Arabic for the Haven of Peace) offered incontrast with the open roadstead of Zanzibar.To the Zanzibar Arabs was due also the firstauthentic knowledge of the interior. In questof slaves and ivory these Arabs penetratedinland to Tanganyika, and even across tha

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