sentences:  Sharpe's reports were complacently dismissive about the likelihood of their rivals having any success, and he said that once the 60-year-old Msiri was gone, Katanga would be theirs.In this case it would probably have become part of Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, with which it shares strong cultural and ethnic links.Leopold responded in 1891 by sending two expeditions, and Sharpe's view seemed to be borne out.