Will anybody just tell us what we want with Kilima-njaro,
the great mountain district in East Africa, visited last year by Mr. H. H. Johnston, and described in our columns on January 31st of this year ? It is a beautiful place, the sanitarium of East Africa, and not inaccessible ; but what do we want with more sanitariums We have one already on the Blue Mountains in Madras, which would hold all the Europeans in Asia, but which no one out of India ever sees ; and now we are to take another in the African interior. At least, the Birmingham Post says so, apparently on authority, for it adds that Germany has con- sented to the annexation. Do we want to march frontiers with Germany, of all Powers in the world ; or what is the motive? It certainly is not gain ; and if it is to form a mission centre for Christian teaching in the Lake region of Africa, that is not the business of the State. England might just as well annex Timbuctoo.
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