ABSTRACT
On September the 3rd, the Pioneers having reached the head-waters of the Sabi River, where their third fort was to be built, Colquhoun left the column and started for Manica. The information which Colquhoun himself had received up to the middle of August led him to believe that the Convention had been signed, and that the boundary line between British and Portuguese territory had been fixed at the 33rd degree of longitude. If any ex post facto justification is required for Rhodes’ forceful policy in Manica, it may be seen in the fact that, from, this moment, the Portuguese began to accord rational treatment to their East African possessions. The improvement has been maintained, as no one will deny who, remembering what Sofala and Delagoa Bay were like in the early ’nineties, visits Beira, Lourenzo Marques and other settlements of the Portuguese in East Africa to-day.
