[The Ivory Trail by Talbot Mundy]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ivory Trail CHAPTER THREE 57/73
Over and over again, beside camp-fires, and in the dark when they thought I was not listening, I have heard them talk of missionaries from German territory who spread a doctrine of what you might call pan-Islam for lack of a better name.
I said at the time of the Uganda mutiny that I believed Germans were behind it.
I've seen no reason to change my opinion since.
It's obvious that if the mutiny had by some ill chance succeeded Uganda would have been an easy prey for Karl Peters and his Germans.
If that ivory of Tippoo Tib's is really in the Bahr el Gazal at the back of Uganda, then the German motive for stirring up the Uganda mutiny would be obvious." "But doesn't our government know all this ?" demanded Fred. "That depends on what you mean by the word know," answered Courtney. "I've made no secret of my own opinion!" "But they wouldn't listen ?" "Some did, some didn't.
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