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The rear column and Tippo-Tib; The porters fail to rendezvous with the EPRE; Arab opposition to Tippo-Tib; Arab operations round Yambuya; Renewed efforts by Barttelot to advance; Tippo-Tib’s intentions; Vankerckhoven’s arrival; The demise of the Rear Column; Jameson’s attempts to remount the expedition; Stanley’s reactions; Jameson; The accusations against Tippo-Tib and the Arabs; Leopold’s new plans; Stanley’s action against Tippo-Tib over the Rear Column; The EPRE starts for the coast; Anglo-German rivalry: The Uganda Imbroglio; Buganda; Mtesa; Mwanga; The EPRE in Uganda; Mwanga retakes Buganda; Peters and Jackson; A Tippo-Tib expedition for IBEAC?; Emin’s duplicity; Anglo-German tension elsewhere in eastern Africa; The Anglo-German (Heligoland) Treaty; French reactions