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Protectorate having served as Commissioner to the Anglo-Portuguese Boundary
Rectification Delimitation in1899 and serving again in 1907.
As Alston, Swann was awarded the Central Africa War Medal.

Alfred Swann (seated) with C. P. Knipe relaxing after a trying day’s
elephant hunting.

The verbatim report of the expedition that follows was written by Alston
very shortly after its successful conclusion. It is a first draft written somewhat
shakily in pencil on lined pages from a notebook and has never previously been
published. Alston notes that he was slightly feverish at the time of writing. The
original manuscript is in the possession of the writer.
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FIRST DRAFT OF REPORT ON EXPEDITION AGAINST
MWASI. December 1895 / January 1896.

The O.C., Armed Forces, British Central Africa.
[Lieutenant Colonel C. A. Edwards].

From Lieutenant E.G. Alston, Armed Forces, British Central Africa

Fort Maguire

nd
Jan 22 , 1896

Sir,
I have the honour to inform you that in accordance with your orders, I
left Karonga on the 22 December [1895] by the S. S. Hermann von Wissmann
nd