Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Blaine.
Sir: I have the honor, in accordance with instructions which I have received from Her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, to communicate to you the accompanying notice which has been published in the London Gazette of the 4th instant, proclaiming the protectorate of Her Majesty over the dominions of the Sultanate of Zanzibar specified therein.
A similar notification has been addressed by Her Majesty’s Government to the other powers who were parties to the act of Berlin.
I have, etc.,
Extract from the London Gazette of Tuesday, November 4, 1890.
It is hereby notified, for public information, that in pursuance of an agreement with the Sultan of Zanzibar, the dominions of his highness are placed under the protectorate of Her Britannic Majesty.
The protectorate comprises the territory recognized as belonging to his highness in the articles of agreement between Great, Britain and Germany, recorded in the note from his excellency Count Hatzfeldt of the 29th October, 1886, and in the note from the Earl of Iddesleigh of the 1st November following, with the exception of the territory lying to the south of the river Umba on the island of Mafia, and of the districts of Brava, Merka, Magadisho, and Warksheikh.
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