Santos made a misjudgment this time; he never expected the Germans would act on the Kazembe Kingdom so quickly, or rather, he didn't expect the Germans to dare act on the Kazembe Kingdom.
As a result, he mistakenly took this East African action as a move by the Portuguese colony, compounded by the lack of information from his subordinates which deepened his misjudgment.
However, there was one thing he did not misjudge; the Portuguese in the Kazembe Kingdom indeed did not consider him as one of their own, after all, Santos came with a bunch of "lost dogs" trying to gain a foothold here, which hardly made sense.
East Africa sent envoys to Kazembe to demand "criminals" and land, the Portuguese Kazembe Chamber of Commerce indeed got the news, but they didn't inform Santos and his group.
