European powers and South-East Africa : a tudy of international relations on the south-east coast of Africa 1796-1856 / [by] Mabel V. Jackson Haight.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-357) and indexes.

CHAPTER ONE. Introductory -- CHAPTER TWO. The Place of South-East Africa in Ocean Strategy : 1. A tri-continental frontier - 2. Part of a European oceanic empire - 3. Return to obscurity -- CHAPTER THREE. The Portuguese Possessions : 1. The colony and its defences - 2. Economic conditions ; (a) Traders all , (b) The export -- CHAPTER FOUR. The French and the East Coast : 1. La Bourdonnais - 2. Île de France - 3. Localism - 4. More designs on Portuguese East Africa? --CHAPTER FIVE. The Beginnings of British Interest in East Africa : 1. Trade between British India and Portuguese East Africa - 2. Britain plans to take Portuguese East Africa - 3. War in East African waters - 4. Britain obtains the right to trade -- CHAPTER SIX. East Africa becomes an Object of British Official Policy : 1. The cession of Mombasa - 2. The problem of Delagoa Bay -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Portuguese East Africa and the Slave Trade : 1. The suppression of the Portuguese trade - 2. Palmerston and the Portuguese trade, 1830-42 - 3. Muscat, France and the trade - 4. After 1845 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Portuguese East Africa Emerges from Obscurity : 1. The Portuguese and the Great Trek - 2. The French - 3. The grouping of the Powers -- Maps : SAILING ROUTES TO THE INDIAN OCEAN - THE ZAMBESI VALLEY - TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE ISLAND OF MOZAMBIQUE WITH PROJECTED PLANS OF ITS FORTS, 1754 - CAPTAIN W. F. W.OWEN'S CHART OF MOZAMBIQUE ISLAND AND HARBOUR, 1824 - ENTRANCES TO THE ZAMBESI - GRAPH ILLUSTRATING THE EXPORTS FROM BOMBAY AND SURAT TO THE EAST COAST OF AFRICA, AND CUSTOMS REVENUE OF MOZAMBIQUE, 1808–16 - CAPTAIN W. F. W. OWEN'S CHART OF DELAGOA BAY.