Britishcrica] EAST AFRICA AND UGANDA 30 .ܕ ܕܕ With regard to this Lord Granville was requested to .. defer his decision until the German Government had been able to consult maps of the protected ter ritory. On June 2 Bismarck affirmed : “ We have no inten tion ... to demand any surrender of territories which are indubitably his " ' (belonging to the Sultan of Zanzibar ). On September 3 Sir E. Malet reported that Bismarck had explained to him that what the Ger man Government wanted was not a naval port, but that their vessels should have free access to and the use of the Sultan's ports. Nevertheless, in August, the German Government asked the Sultan " for a sta tion on the coast of the mainland to be used as a Ger man port, and as a base for the undertakings likely to follow upon her recent annexations in the interior ” ; and, as the result of the German Commodore's report, Dar es Salaam was, in September 1885 , selected as a naval depot.

The Anglo -German Agreement of October/Novem ber 1886' finally left toZanzibar only a continuous strip of territory on the coast from Tunghi Bay, on the south, to Kipiniat the mouth of the Tana River , on the north, and certain stations , Kismayu, Brava , Merca, Mogadishu , and Warsheikh, on the Benadir coast be yond. The vast hinterland, with the Umba River as boundary, was divided between the German Com mercial Company ( to the south ) and the British East Africa Company (to the north ) . The British Company, the work of the “ prominent capitalists alluded to in Lord Granville's letter quoted above , chief among them Sir William Mackinnon, obtained in May 1887 from the Sultan of Zanzibar a 50 years ' lease of the strip of coast from the Umba River as far as > 1 Ibid ., pp . 26-7 . Ibid . , p . 25 . s Ibid . , p : 66 .

* Ibid ., p . 78 . See below , Appendix I , p. 97 )