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In the same way the powerful insular
kingdom voluntarily submitted to settlement in
the weary contention regarding the possession
of Delagoa Bay and the surrounding region
on the east coast of Africa. The dispute was
entrusted for settlement, in 1874, to the
President of the French Republic, MacMahon,
and he decided in July, 1875, in favour of
Portugal. That the new contention between
these two States, which for some time now
has excited an inflammable spirit, not only in
Portugal, but in other countries as well, will
be arranged in the same friendly manner, there
is but little doubt.
The claim of Portugal is much older than
that of England. Its special ground is the
discovery of the coast which was made by
Portuguese mariners three hundred years ago. The
Portuguese urge, that since the coast is theirs,
they have a right to go as far inland as they
choose and place the country thus entered
under their dominion. They say further, that
they have made a treaty with a native ruler
over a kingdom which stretches far inland, and
that ruined fortresses are still to be found which
show that they once had this distant region in
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