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Elias Khamisa

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Assistant Director Museums of Kenya.

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East Africa Historian.

Shel Arensen

Old Africa Magazine.

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Michael Backman Ltd.

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Islamic Flower Scroll Collection.

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Zanzibar History.

Arabian Nights

Memoirs of Arabian Princess of Zanzibar.

Memoirs of Arabian Princess From Zanzibar.

Gold Bangles Similar Worn By Princess Saida Salme of Zanzibar.

Jumaar earings from India.Similar worn by Saida Salme princess of zanzibar

Saida Salme”Emily Ruete” Autograph of her Son Said Ruete.

Selling History

This video is about the discovery, excavation, research and reporting of ten historical shipwrecks found by Sten Sjostrand. These fully loaded shipwrecks, which were all found in the South China Sea, are best dated to: (+/-) 960-1127, 1370, 1380, 1400, 1460, 1540, 1550, 1625, 1700 and 1830.

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AFRICAN

The Letter

Henry Morton Stanley Letter to his German Friends.

By Henry Morton Stanley

My dear friend,

a number of Germans and Austrians write to me in the course of a week but unfortunately they write to me in their own language of which I – to my shame i must admit – do not know a word. When i am married to a certain fair lady – i shall then be lecturable to appreciate their sentiments for she is fluent, a great linguist you might say – Until then i must be content with dropping German affairs into the waste basket ignorant whether they are blessings or curses. For really i am overwhelmed by the hundreds of letters received daily and the hosts of collars. The books thanks goodness is off my hands and i would be willing to pay a round sum for the privilege of a long sleep which i think i deserve. I need absolute rest, from the day i stepped into Africa for Emin i have not enjoyed that sweet balm to tired bodies which i should clearly like to obtain. I hope my dearly beloved is a woman of vigorous disposition who will bear me away with her regions of arousing felicity where the married are said to be at rest.

Carlyle used to say that the Germans were a philosophical people, but i have not found them to be so. They are just as excitable and emotional as the French. In the matter of Emin for instance what were they to Emin or he to them, before he was brought out of negroland by us. Emin was English in sentiment though in nature Emin was essentially German. It was English service he aspired for whatever he may be now. His letter to the British foreign office prove it. But what business was it of mine one way or the other. I did not proceed to assist a German or an Englishman but an ideal governor who had fixed direction in my imagination as a man essentially worthy of assistance. He had been sent for into Equatorial , but his besieged as i thought by the Mahadises and i hoped that a little ammunition would enable him to hold out and until the effect of further light upon his positions would be more general desire to assist him. You recollect i dare say what silly opinion there were about Livingstone. It was my joy on returning from him to give the reading public another view of him – as a man, a Christian, a companion and a gentleman. why should i not do the same for Emin starting as i did prejudiced? because Emin Would not permit me. He continued in the most extraordinary way to give an answer to my regard for him. There are some things about him which are as much a mystery as ever. Having warned him of our coming, i do not understand why he should not have reached right down further south on the Lake to tell the natives he expected us. The same day he wrote to us so confidentially. On March 25th 1888 he rewrited to Peterman “If Stanley does not come soon, we’re lost “. When i meet him six week s later – he tells me nothing of this. I am perfect ignorance of his true position and a little frankness might have availed much. When i return to him nine months later he is a prisoner. If i could find any part in me that vexed him in any way, state or form, i would punish it severely. I must even be content to be lost in perplexity. I was with him for twenty six days on my first visit – and my diary is full of pleasantries pleasure chats by the lakeshore of pleasing restfulness, a good deal of letter writing matter between us and every epistle marks mutual pleasure. Whatever opposite views of men and meanings we take only serve to make the pleasure in each other’s society keener and healthy laugh gets into discussion. Never the less a few things create a suspicion in me that there is something very odd about Emin but what its remains among the undiscovered things until my return with the last installment of the relief. But then Emin is a prisoner and all too late. I find that the mystery was that Emin no real government or province, that he had lived upon the sufferance of his rebel officers. Probably pride had kept him silent, but he was at fault that he was not frank enough, for something might have been done. Whereas being a prisoner then was nothing much for him to do but to come. How he come away will be best told by the book which records each day’s doings. The truth must be told however that from my point of view he remains incomprehensible now as then in the camp of Kavalli. Everybody will make up his own mind about Emin some kindly, others with severity. I only affect to be the reflecting medium and i have endeavored to reflect him charitable, most readers will be too indolent in mind to exercise thought upon the matter, content to leave this matter well alone and they will be wise.

About Emin talking service with the Germans i do not think anyone has a right to criticize him. I hope he will obtain abundant success than i wish him. But the manner of his engagement is just as incomprehensible to me as any portion of his history. I could not make out as why he should not have reached Cairo, thanked the Khedive and sent in his resignation in due form and reached Europe to cities of London and Berlin get as many fold medals as he could store away. If ever he expected a desire for medals, I will do my best to get him all he needs. He may have all for the asking. It is probably his morbid sensitiveness pride that has seen his greatest obstacle in this and at other times. His fall at Bagamoyo has certainly upset every theory. I ever had of him. When he went into the hospital, a shadow come between him and i so thick and palpable nature that quite obscured the happy relations that i thought was ever between us. All our officers, are dumbfounded and none of us dare venture upon any opinion as to the cause.

About German aspirations in East and Central Africa – i do not care to speak much. I have no material interest in the subject but a strong sentimental one. While i would wish that the Germans would show an earnest desire to do some good in the their vast and valuable territory between the three lakes Victoria, Tanganyika, and Nyatta it is not my business to seek to limit their ambition if they choose to annex the whole of the continent. It does not a coffer cent about who wins Africa but while i have many friends in the British East African company i cannot stand idly looking at them expending their thousand fruitlessly in their attempts to rival German empire. I have told them that until their territory is delimited they are swiftly squandering many uselessly to send expeditions – when they do not how soon in a fit of disgust they may ash the German to relieve them of the whole.

The arguments applicable to them are applicable to Germans. If the German colonials think they will make more money by driving the English out of Africa they are much mistaken. It is the healthy rivalry between the two nations that gives East Africa any value. When the English retire in disgust from Africa, German interest in the continent will perish and if by any accident the German were to retire to a similar cause, British interest in it would die away. I should like to see both nations coming to a fair and honorable understanding, then both nations would prosper and make their respect territories fruitful in return. Revolve that thought carefully yourself and you will arrive at the same conclusions, the whole Africa is not worth to Great Britain what a quarrel with Germany would cost, nor is the continent worth to Germans what a fight with the England would cost.

Therefore in order to stimulate a healthy interest in Africa both nations should agree upon their frontiers – the process of each upon each would produce what attrition I – as a lover of Africa would dearly love to see. England for instance does not care in the least for Congo state – because she has no share in it and cannot have – and if she is driven out of East Africa she will not care for it and the Germans will cease to take that keen interest in it. Which their pride amongst people it would otherwise have in the neighborhood of a rich, powerful and dominating power.

                                                                                                                                       Yours Faithfull,

                                                                                                                                       Henry M. Stanley

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