The well known story of the gift of Mount Kilimanjaro by Queen Victoria to the Kaiser a few years later (rumoured to be because he had no high snow-clad peak in his empire) is perhaps indicative of the rather flippant attitude of the then imperial rulers and their governments towards the frontier lines of their overseas possessions.

... Since Queen Victoria's gift of Mount Kilimanjaro to the Kaiser this area has been developed into the main zone of German colonisation.