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A SUBJECT INDEX, as well as a CHRONOLOGICAL LIST of Documents, will also be found at the end of the Second Volume.

There still remain many Territorial and other important questions to be determined in Africa, negotiations for the settlement of which are still pending, but it has been thought better to publish a Work containing a collection of the Documents which already exist and which constitute the TITLE DEEDS of the various Powers to their present possessions and spheres of influence in Africa, rather than to wait, for an indefinite period, until the whole African Continent should be subdivided among the various nations of the world. With the present Work before them, it is to be hoped that others may be able, hereafter, to publish a more complete work upon the subject, and one more worthy of the Title which I have ventured to give to this incomplete one.

Although the Work has been published with the sanction of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, it must be clearly understood that I am solely responsible for the selection of the Documents, as well as for the Notes which appear throughout its pages.

In conclusion, I will only express an earnest hope that the many difficulties which have naturally attended the compilation and editing of such a comprehensive work as this will be fully realized; and that any errors or omissions which may be discovered may be kindly pointed out to me, as such communications will always be received with a cordial welcome.

FOREIGN OFFICE,

December, 1894.

EDWARD HERTSLET.

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