COMMENDING the admirable and gentlemanly restraint and sensibility shown by Major Jean-Baptiste Marchand and Sirdar Sir Herbert Kitchener with regard to this unfortunate situation, which has done so much to prevent an unseemly incident or exchange of fire between civilised peoples;
and DESIRING that no such further issues may occur between the Powers of Britain and France;
The following terms are agreed between the British Empire and the French Republic.
1. The respective Powers consent that the source of the Nile and the Congo rivers should mark the frontier between their spheres of influence, and that neither Power shall attempt to interfere with one another nor alter this demarcation but by mutual consent.
2. Major Marchand and Adjutant-General Kitchener are to be honoured suitably and reciprocally by both nations for their part in defusing the crisis, being decorated and accorded appropriate honours.
3. Given the importance of the Civilising Mission in Africa of the British Empire and the French Republic, the respective Powers agree to support one another's military efforts in Africa against unseemly parties such as doomsday cults, slave traders and tribal warlords, for the betterment of the respective Powers, the peoples of Africa and of Mankind in general.
Hereby signed,
(on behalf of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
