Herzl saw the need for encouragement by the great powers of the aims of the Jewish people in the Land. Thus, he traveled to the Land of Israel and Istanbul in 1898 to meet with Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. When these efforts proved fruitless, he turned to Great Britain, and met with Joseph Chamberlain, the British colonial secretary and others. The only concrete offer he received from the British was the proposal of a Jewish autonomous region in east Africa, in Uganda. Herzl is here on a boat with members of the Zionist mission onhis way to see Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1898 Herzl, Theodor Austrian (Hungarian-born) Zionist leader; convened 1st Zionist Congress 1897 _1860-1904