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The Church Extension Society had received, 

 from October, 1893, to October," 1894, $21,903, 

 showing an increase of $4,974 over the receipts 

 of the previous year, and of $142 over those of 

 1892, which had been the largest up to that time 

 returned. Loans had been paid back during the 

 year amounting to $G,3?5, and interest had been 

 paid to the amount of $2,926, making a total of 

 returned loans and interest of $9,301. The total 

 amount of returned loans and payments of in- 

 terest since the fund began operations was 

 $35,003. Thirty-seven churches had been aided 

 during the year with loans amounting in the 

 aggregate to $20,845, and grants had been made, 

 yet to be paid, to 47 churches, of $26,225. In 

 pursuance of a plan adopted two years previous- 

 ly for purchasing lots at special centers for 

 church buildings, the money to be secured and 

 returned as other loans, with 4 per cent, interest, 

 aid had been given at Everett, Mass., Salt Lake 

 City, Utah, and Topeka, Kan. Under a policy 

 adopted in 1888 of permitting persons subscrib- 

 ing $5,000 to the church-extension funds to name 

 their subscriptions as special funds, four " named 

 loan funds " had been established. 



The income of the Foreign Christian Mission- 



ary Society had been $73,258, being the largest 

 in the history of the society. A large gain was 

 reported in the number of contributing churches 

 and Sunday schools. The expenditures had 

 been $73,173. The Christian Endeavor Socie- 

 ties had contributed $5,287. Seven small be- 

 quests were spoken of in the report. Reports 

 were received from the mission fields in India 

 16 missionaries, 14 native helpers, 6 stations ; 

 Japan 9 missionaries, 16 native helpers, 4 sta- 

 tions ; China 23 missionaries, 25 native helpers, 

 8 stations. These three missions returned 1,291 

 pupils in Sunday schools, 660 in day schools, and 

 28 in boarding schools (China) : Turkey, 12 sta- 

 tions, 604 members, 508 in Sunday schools, 393 

 in day schools ; Scandinavia, 941 members, 320 

 in Sunday schools, 5 church buildings in Nor- 

 way ; England, stations in London, Hornsey, 

 Southampton, Tarro Tabernacle, Gloucester, 

 Cheltenham, Liverpool, and Birkenhead 1,531 

 members, 1,265 in Sunday schools. Bible and 

 training schools had been opened in India, 

 China, and Japan. An asylum for lepers had 

 been built in Hurda, India. 

 ' DOMINION OF CANADA. See CANADA. 

 DUNKERS. See BRETHREN. 



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EAST AFRICA, a region extending from 

 the Zambesi to the Juba river, and inland to the 

 great lakes, the Congo Free State, and the Nile, 

 embracing British East Africa, German East 

 Africa, and Portuguese East Africa, formerly 

 the colony of Mozambique. 



British East Africa. The strip of coast, 10 

 miles broad, extending from the Umbe river, 

 the northern limit of German East Africa, to 

 the Ozi river, was leased in 1888 by the Sultan 

 of Zanzibar for fifty years to the Imperial Brit- 

 ish East Africa Company, and in the following 

 year a cession was made of the ports farther 

 north. In 1891 the Sultan made a complete 

 cession of the whole territory in perpetuity, the 

 company agreeing to pay $80,000 a year to the 

 Sultan and his heirs. The ports north of Kis- 

 mayu were in that year given up to Italy, and 

 the British sphere of influence was limited to 

 the territory south of the Juba. By the agree- 

 ment of 1890 the German Government ceded to 

 Great Britain Witu and the territory adjoining 

 on the north, as well as the islands of Patta and 

 Manda, and established as the boundary be- 

 tween the British and German spheres the Umbe 

 river and a line going round northward of Mount 

 Kilimanjaro and extended to the point where the 

 first parallel of north latitude cuts Victoria Ny- 

 anza, and then following that parallel to the 

 boundary of the Congo Free State. Everything 

 north of that line, including the basin of the 

 Nile, was recognized as the British sphere of in- 

 fluence. The Anglo-Italian agreement of March 

 24. 1891, defines the boundary between the Ital- 

 ian sphere in Abyssinia and Somaliland the Juba 

 river up to 6 of north latitude, then that paral- 

 lel as far as 35 of east longitude, and then that 

 meridian north to the Blue Nile. 



The British East Africa Company was char- 

 tered Sept. 3, 1888. It occupied the Hinterland 



between the coast and Victoria Nyanza, and 

 afterward Uganda, withdrawing from the latter 

 country by arrangement with the British Gov- 

 ernment in March, 1893. The capital of the 

 company was 2,000,000, of which 1,000,000 

 was offered to the public. The Sultan of Zanzi- 

 bar on June 30, 1892, at the instance of the Brit- 

 ish Government, placed all his territories in the 

 free zone of the Berlin general act of the Congo, 

 thereby cutting off the customs revenue of the 

 company except 5 per cent, import duties al- 

 lowed by the Brussels antislavery act. 



Mwanga, the chief of Uganda, accepted the 

 overtures of the company in 1889, but in Febru- 

 ary, 1890, he signed a treaty with the agents of 

 Germany. By the Anglo-German arrangement 

 the Germans conceded this country to Great 

 Britain, and in December of the same year Capt. 

 Lugard, commander of a military force of the 

 British East Africa Company that occupied 

 Mwanga's capital, forced him to sign a treaty 

 placing his dominion under the protection of 

 the company. 



The protectorate of Uganda has been placed 

 under an administrator, who is charged with 

 the further duty of looking after the chiefs of 

 the surrounding countries to which the protec- 

 torate does not extend, of making arrangements 

 with them to insure the peace of the country, 

 and exercising such supervision as will prevent 

 them from making war on rival chiefs, or encour- 

 aging slavery or allowing the slave trade to be 

 carried on, or hindering commerce within their 

 territories. A 10-mile strip between Uganda 

 and the coast farming the road to Uganda is 

 placed under the administration of a subcom- 

 missioner, who reports to the consul-general at 

 Zanzibar. The latter official, acting under the 

 Foreign Office in London, has control also over 

 the acts of the Imperial British East Africa 



