Wooing the African Venus

Edward Linley Sambourne (1844-1910)

Wood engraving

Punch (22 September 1888): 134

“A Charter has just been granted to the Imperial British East Africa Company. This Company will now administer and develop a territory with an estimated area of about 50,000 square miles, including some of the most fertile and salubrious regions of Eastern Africa.”

Click on the image to enlarge it