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THE CAMEROONS

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THE
CAMEROONS

BY
ALBERT F. CALVERT, F.C.S.,

Knight Grand Cross of The Royal Order of Isabel
the Catholic, Knight Grand Cross of The
Royal Order of Alfonso XII., etc.

AUTHOR OF

The German African Empire, South-West Africa,
Nigeria and its Tinfields, The Political Value of our Colonies,
The Exploration of Australia,
Mineral Resources of Minas Geraes, Brazil, etc.


London:
T. WERNER LAURIE, Ltd.,
8, Essex Street, London.
1917.

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E. Goodman & Son, The Phœnix Press, Taunton.

PREFACE.

ALTHOUGH the designs, which German philosophers conceived and Germanstatesmen and strategists spent thirty years in perfecting, for theconquest of our Cape territories and the creation of a Greater Germanyextending from the Mediterranean to Table Bay, are best illustrated andexposed by the defiantly defensive policy they pursued in South-WestAfrica, the rise, development and fall of the German Colonial Empire ismore completely epitomised in the chapter dealing with the Cameroons.

The establishment of the German East African protectorate forms a storythat is intensely interesting, inasmuch as it reveals the duplicity ofTeutonic methods in their relations with native races, European rivalsand their own agents. Bismarck, the last barbarian of genius, repudiatedDr. Karl Peters when, equipped with private capital and acting on hisown initiative, he was acquiring in the hinterland of Zanzibar awell-watered, fertile province equal in extent to South Germany, andobtaining from the Sultan the concession for the ports of{vi} Dar-es-Salaamand Pangani. It was necessary in 1884 for Germany to assure England thatthe Imperial Government had no intention of securing possessions in aregion which was admittedly within Britain’s sphere of influence, andBismarck pursued Dr. Peters to Africa with an of

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