White Man - Early in 1909 an assistant DC (Capt. Barrett) with an escort of KAR, went up to Moyale from Jubaland to relieve the Greek Frontier Agent, Mr Zaphiro, who was recalled to Addis Ababa.  

Debrett - was British S. Abyssinian Frontier Inspector 1904-10, since when he has been British Vice-Consul at Addis Ababa (also First Interpreter and Abyssinian Sec. 1910-15, and Oriental Sec. since 1921)

Curtis - p. 148 - 'A Trading Safari to Marsabit in 1907' - Philip Zaphiro CMG, is the Greek who was British Frontier Agent at Moyale from 1905 to 1909 and later Secretary to the British Legation in Addis Ababa. Being a malaria sufferer, he shifted the Kenya Ethiopia border several kilometres to the north so as to have in Kenya a place for his headquarters, Moyale, which was fairly free from mosquitoes.

Thurston - CO 533, 408/16 - 1930-32 - P. Zaphiro: request for gratuity refused

Lillibullero - Greek Frontier Agent. ......... half Turk and half Greek, a man of hand and mind, in later days famous as the Oriental Secretary to the British Minister at Addis Ababa.

Hut - Brit. Consul Moyale, Taxidermist

Judy Aldrick, Northrup, 2012: He was employed by Sir John Harrington as a taxidermist and interpreter, He had lived in Harar, Ethiopia, where he worked as a medical dispenser for some years and spoke Arabic, Amharic and Oromo (also known as Galla). He was a keen ornithologist and in 1907 was appt. British Southern Abyssinia Frontier Inspector. He became First Interpreter at the Legation under the Minister Wilfrid Thesiger and in 1921 was appt. Oriental Secretary and was given a royal commission.

Naturalised British 24 Jan 1913

T.R.H. Cashmore, 'Your Obedient Servant' typescript in Bodleian Library Mss Afr.s.1034  He was a Greek born in Constantinople and educated in Cairo. He had previously been a medical dispenser at Harrar. He was a keen ornithologist and had been employed by Harrington as a taxidermist. He held the frontier of over 500 miles in length and had to support him for force varying between 15 and 35 Abyssinian in irregulars. His salary was 200 pounds a year and ten shillings per day subsistence allowance. As well as watching the frontier Zaphiro was expected to encourage trade, to investigate the origins of the tribes south of the frontier line and to supply the British Minister in Addis Ababa with early information of any Abyssinian raids. Despite frequent bouts of illness, the Zaphiro held the frontier from late 1905 until October 1909. It was a remarkable feat, and he achieved his ends by bluff. His technique was to threaten the local Abyssinians with the power of Britain, and over his own tribes he held the threat of abandoning them to Abyssinian raids. Whereas the first threat was usually ignored, the second bore some fruit and helped to keep tribes out of the undefined frontier quiet. Zaphiro operated on a map showing the line of frontier agreed to provisionally by the Emperor. In searching for a station that was not subject to malaria, he picked on a spur of the Abyssinian Highlands to erect his camp. Later to the site was shown to be just inside Abyssinia. The Boma Trading Company started trading in the area but Zaphiro in his dealings with it proved excitable and suspicious and they became on the worst of terms.