Dürer donned an Arabian robe, mounted a horse, and looked utterly inconspicuous as he appeared on the streets of Dar es Salaam.
Dürer was German to begin with; with his fair skin and clothing from the Arab regions, he truly looked like a local Arab unless one looked closely.
Without drawing the attention of the Sultanate of Zanzibar's soldiers, Dürer spurred his horse and hurried swiftly toward the border region.
East African colony had once promised Sultan Majid that it would not station troops in Dar es Salaam. It had settled for the next best thing, leaving a force of two hundred men at the border some distance from Dar es Salaam.
They were there to prevent any upheaval in the Sultanate of Zanzibar—or rather, to ensure that the route from Dar es Salaam Port to East African colony remained clear.
After all, for a nation whose standing army numbered only several thousand year-round, two hundred well-equipped soldiers already posed a certain threat.
East African colony's armed forces currently numbered around eight thousand. Apart from two thousand Germans and over three hundred Austro-Hungarian Empire immigrants, the rest were all Chinese immigrants.
These eight thousand troops were scattered across East African colony's land of more than 700,000 square kilometers.
Of them, more than three thousand Colonial Army troops were stationed across the three eastern Binhai Districts. After subtracting the forces required for local defense, East African colony could quickly mobilize roughly fifteen hundred men.
Those fifteen hundred included the two hundred men in the Dar es Salaam direction, three hundred at Tanga Port, more than five hundred at First Town, and the troops in the remaining parts of the three Binhai Districts who could be flexibly deployed.
"Halt! Who goes there?" The East African colony soldiers stationed in the Kibaha