British frica ] APPENDIX EXTRACTS FROM TREATIES I ANGLO -GERMAN AGREEMENT, OCTOBER 29 /NOVEM BER 1 , 1886 .

1. GERMANY and Great Britain recognize the sovereignty of the Sultan of Zanzibar over the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, and over the smaller islands which lie in the neighbourhood of the above within a radius of 12 sea miles, as well as over the Islands of Lamu and Mafia .

On the mainland they likewise recognize as possessions of the Sultan a line of coast which stretches without interruption from the Minengani River at the head of Tunghi Bay to Kipini . This line commences on the south of the Minengani River, follows the course of that river for 5 sea miles , and continues thence on the line of latitude to the point where it strikes the right bank of the Rovuma River , crosses the Rovuma , and runs down its left bank .

The coast-line has an internal depth of 10 sea miles measured from the coast direct into the Interior from high -water mark .

The northern limit includes Kau . To the north of Kipini the said Governments recognize as be longing to the Sultan the stations of Kismayu, Brawa , Meurka , and Magadisho, with radii landwards of 10 sea miles , and of War sheik with a radius of 5 sea miles .

2. Great Britain engages to support negotiations of Germany with the Sultan for the leasing to the German African Company of the customs duties at the ports of Dar -es -Salaam and Pangani, in return for an annual payment to the Sultan by the Company .

3. Both Powers agree to establish a delimitation of their respec tive spheres of influence on this portion of the East African Conti aent of the same character as that to which they have agreed as regards the territories on the Gulf of Guinea .

The territory to which this arrangement applies is bounded on the south by the Rovuma River , and on the north by a line which , starting from the mouth of the Tana River , follows the course of [3918] I 2 a