----, war with Japan, 175 Coal, 180 Cocoa, 117, 121, 154, 166 Coffee, 101, 102, 154, 166 Congo Free State, 88 Cook, Captain, 128 Copper, 75, 180 Copra, 102, 120, 154, 162, 166 Cotton, 101, 117, 120, 166 D Damaraland, 41 Dar-es-Salaam, 95 ---- bombarded, 108 De Wet, General, defeat and capture, 82 ----, rebels, 81 Diamonds, 75 Dutch in Pacific, 127, 130 E Elliott, Major, stops rebellion in South West Africa, 70 _Emden_, the, 184, 185 F France in the East, 176, 177 ---- in West Africa, 109 Frere, Sir Bartle, 42, 46, 53, 90 G Galena, 75, 180 German Colonial Empire limits, 31 ---- Colonial trade, 27 ---- Colonisation Society, 20 ---- Confederation of 1814, 17 ---- East African Society, 91 ---- Emperor, 18 ---- Emperor, letter to Lord Tweedmouth, 31 ---- industries, 26 ---- native policy, 31 ---- naval aspirations, 31 Germans and natives, 34 ---- as colonisers, 32 ---- in America, 33 ---- in Brazil, 33 ---- in Cape Colony, 33 German South West Africa, 24 Germany and native treaties, 91 ---- annexes South West Africa, 62 ----, aspirations in Rhodesia, 55 ----, aspirations in South Africa, 53 ---- at Angra Pequena, 56 ---- "a world Power," 28 ----, deprecatory spirit, 31, 61 ----, emigration, 21 ---- enters colonisation field, 23 ----, false conception of Boer character, 79 ----, first German Colony, 44 ----, ideas of expansion, 26 ---- in the Pacific, 25, 124 ---- in West Africa, 110 Germany in Zanzibar, 24, 89 ----, native policy, 70 ----, naval demonstration at Zanzibar, 92 ----, place in Moroccan affairs, 29 ----, population, 20 ----, secret treaty with Russia _qua_ China, 178 ----, threat to Japan, 176, 185 ----, ultimatum to Japan, 176 ----, wireless system in Africa, 66 Gold, 75, 107, 167, 180 Grain, 101 Granville, Lord, and Bismarck, 57, 111 Great Britain in Africa, 36 Great Namaqualand and Cape Colony, 61 Guano, 74 Gum-copal, 101 H Heligoland, exchange for Zanzibar, 25, 92 Hides, 73, 102 I Iron, 75, 180 Ivory, 102, 154, 166 J Japan, German ultimatum, 176 ----, her claims in China, 175 ----, ultimatum to Germany, 183 K Kalahari Desert, 41 Kamerun, 24, 109, 113, 119, 120, 122 Kiau-Chau, 172, 178, 179, 180 ----, fall of, 185 ----, Japan's ultimatum to Germany, 183 Kiel, 18 Kilima 'Njaro, 25, 88, 93 L Lead, 75 Lebaudy, M., 88 Leopold, King of the Belgians, 87 Luderitz, Herr, at Angra Pequena, 55 ----, at Santa Lucia, 64 Luderitzbucht, 64, 82 M Magellan, 130 "Mailed fist," the, 178 Maize, 118 Marble, 74 Maritz, General, 79 Merriman, John X., 54 Mica, 107 Mohair, 73 Morocco, 29 N Nachtigal, Dr, 111 Namaqualand, Great, 41 Natives, German exploitation of, 116 New Guinea, 25, 130, 166