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Britiee ; t7. of 8M tn. were Oer- 

 U.480 tow, were French, 

 market for slave, is the Za/i 

 r toe work on the clove i>lan- 

 other work is done by slaves. 

 MOW* v in Zaniiber brought 

 iMtati and forrrd him to enter 

 suppression of 



traAer&t during five yean. of British 

 steps have beta taken to 

 of slaves into the i-lun-K 

 of which come from ii..- 

 ltritih 



law dtww*. hut many eeoape the vigilance of 

 thr tat, and thr Arab roasters who purchase 

 the sieves in Pemba or Zanzibar are protected 

 tetlMirposMMba. Hence a demand has arisen 

 for the moral of the scandal by the al> 

 of slaverr in British protectorates. TV 

 age life of the slaves on the plantations is said 

 lo be only tea years, and for every one that is 

 brought to market ten art- kill.-d in the slave 

 raids or perish from the hardships of the jour- 

 ney. The Government established a vice-con- 

 sulate on the island of Pemba and called f 

 ports from the officials in Zanzibar as to the 

 best method of abolishing slavery. The number 

 of slaves on the islands had increased threefold 

 in ten years, the greater number being raided in 

 protectorate in the lake district and 

 sold to- British subjects in Zanzibar. The Brit- 

 ish Government itself employs t he labor of slaves 

 to coal the cruiser* employed in the suppression of 

 the slave trade, and draws the revenue from which 

 its official* are paid from the slave labor on t he 

 clove plantations, and on the mainland great 

 numbers of slaves are hired to keep up com- 

 munications with Uganda and to perform the 

 transport service on every expedition. The 

 caravan porters are hired in Zanzibar at prices 

 that are about equal to their market value. < >ne 

 third, and sometimes as many as two thirds of 

 those who go up the country, die by the way. 

 The annual importation of slaves into Zan/iUr 

 and Pemba is estimated at 6,000. The consul 

 crnrral at Zanzibar estimated that the imme- 

 diate abolition of slavery in the islands 

 entail a loss of 85.000 a year in 



while the 



revenue, 

 of 800,000 Would be require,! t., 



Africa. The area of German 

 BMC Africa is estimated at 868,000 square 

 and the population at 2.900,000 souls. The num- 

 peens in 1804 was 750. The German 

 Rest African Company, since the rebellion of 

 fee eoast Arab, in 1866, when moat of the sta- 

 in the interior were ruined, 

 to commercial operations, 

 and defense to the Imperial 

 which is represented by a Gov- 



_ artillery, and 

 native police, 



mated subsidies for railroads 

 The budget for 1895 makes the 

 -JOO marks, of which 1.750,000 

 from ctatoms, 400/100 marks from 



the local administration, and 3,870,000 marks 

 are coiitrinuird fr.-m the (i rinaii : 



The value of the imports in 1893 was 7,t 14,822 

 marks: exports, 5,580.?l<> mark?.. The export- 

 able products are cocoanuts. . ; 



caoutchouc, and Ivi ry. \ railroad i> Lnn- l-mlt 

 from Tanra into ih- int.-ri-.r. on \\hieh 

 were running as far as Pongwe in the beginning 

 '". The estimated cost of thu line to the 

 ria Nyanza and Lake Taganyika is ;: 

 000 marks, to be raised by land grantsuii'l an 

 inij^-riul guarantee of 8 per cent im< t 

 cured on the customs receipts of Ka-t A: 



Nvaasaland. On the Shire river and ai the 

 south end of Lake Nyawaure nii->ioiiary Bl 

 and |MKsts of the African Lakes Com pan > 

 the strength of their occtipat ion of this: 

 the Kn^'li-li (iovrrnment compelled I'orti. 

 reiioui aims to the redon now known 



a- British (Vntrul Africa, embracing 500,000 

 square miles, with a population of 3,000,000 sou is. 

 inpcan population was about 800. Thu 

 whole region \\a- proclaimed a P.riti>h | 

 torafceOO May 1 1. l^'.tl. and th- I'.arot > count ry 

 and other districts were handed over to the 

 I'.ritish South Africa Company, with the . 

 tion of Nyassaland, where an administration was 

 organizeof, the cost of which i \ itie 



Imperial (iovernine.nl and the British 

 Africa Company. The company conn 

 27,000 in 1898. The town of B Ian tyre has a 

 population of 6,000 natives and 100 Europeans* 

 The Imperial Commissioner and consul - 

 is H. 1 1. Johnston. One quarter of the i\ory 

 product is exported from this diMrict. <nhr 

 articles exported by way of tho Zninli. 

 India rubber, oil seeds, rhinoceros horns, hippo- 

 pot am us teeth, and rice. Some of th< 

 chiefs and traders are recognized by the I'.riti-h 



; i merit, which wages incessant war a. 

 the rest. The country has been depopul . 

 many places by slave raids. The arm* <i 

 consists of 200 Sikhs from the Indian an 

 some hundreds of native police. In 1-Yi 

 1895, the Yao chief Kawinpa, the most jx 

 slave-raiding chief remaining, attacked a friend- 

 ly chief named Malemya and a small I 

 garrison that guarded his town. Tl 

 tared some of Manvema's people and burned 

 their villages, but failed in an attack upon the 

 British fort. The acting commissi 

 Sharpe, set out from Xoinba with 410 mei. 

 tack the hostile chief in his stronghold on a 

 mountain plateau. They raptured the 

 Iturned the town and surrounding vi 

 carried off large quantities of i 

 copper vessels. Tne Yaos, who dwi-ll in 1' nu 

 guese East Africa, in the hills between Lak 

 MI and the Indian Ocean, have always been the 

 itrincmal purveyors of the slave trade. The 

 British settlements on the lake were thn 

 later by the chief Zarifa, against whom < ,,pt. 

 Manning moved with a large force. MftjH 

 Forbes arrived at /..mi.a in .im..- t arranpj 

 about int r.xlucine: the admini^t rai ion of the 

 British .Souih Africa C<.mpany in the tcrritOfwl 

 north of the /.arnie/i and extending the trapM 

 continental telegraph line .i,/anyildk| 



I' .tiignene East Africa.-! i' rtugfl 

 possessions, which once extended across the con- ' 

 tinent to the colony of Angola, were restricted 



