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JOURNEY ACROSS THE GREAT PYGMY FOREST 



Colonies, Dependencies, and Protectorates of Nations of the World, Showing 

 Area and Population of the Colonial Possessions, Protectorates, Dependen- 

 cies, and "Spheres of Influence" of each Country. 



[Compiled from the Statesman's Year-Book, .1898.] 





o . 



£ a 

 11 



Area (square miles). 



Population. 



Countries. 



Mother coun- 

 try. 



Colonies. 



Mother coun- 

 try. 



Colonies. 



United Kingdom (a)... 



48 

 32 

 8 

 3 

 9 

 3 

 2 

 2 

 3 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 4 



126 



120,979 



204,092 



208,830 



12,648 



36,038 



197,670 



110,646 



240,922 



15,289 



8,516,139 



1,115,067 



1,336,841 



3,557,000 



11,250,412 



3,617,327 



1,020,070 



802,863 



801,060 



245,877 



104,000 



23,262 



86,614 



255,550 



564,500 



2,884,560 



168,287 



39,824,563 



38,517,975 



52,279,915 



4,928,658 



• 5,049,729 

 17,565,632 

 31,290,490 

 41,231,342 

 2,185,235 



126,683,312 

 24,128,690 



386,000,000 

 75,194,000 



344,059,122 



52,642,930 

 10,600,000 







33,911,744 



9,216,707 



256,000 



650,000 



1,568,092 



114,229 





Italy 









5,684,000 



Turkey 



17,489,000 





16,680,000 

 10,177,000 



United States (6) 







Total 



15,672,161 



21,824,382 



844,879,541 



503,048,824 





(a) Includes feudatory native states of India, whose area is 731,944 square miles ; 

 population in 1891, 66,060,479. 



(b) Subject to ratification of pending treaty. 



Note. — The above statements of area and population of British territory include the 

 native feudatory states of India, of which Whitaker's Almanack, published in London 

 for 1899, says that they "are subject to the control of the supreme (British) govern- 

 ment, which is exercised in varying degree, being, generally speaking, governed by 

 native princes, ministers, or councils, with the help and under the advice of a political 

 officer of the supreme government." The Statesman's Year-Book, published in Lon- 

 don, also includes them in its table of area and population of the British Empire, giving 

 their area at 731,944 square miles ; population, 66,060,479. 



LLOYD'S JOURNEY ACROSS THE GREAT PYGMY 

 FOREST 



Mr Albert B. Lloyd, an intrepid young Englishman, recently 

 performed a remarkable journey across the great pygmy forest 

 of Central Africa, which he traversed by a more southerly route 

 than that taken by Stanley. After many interesting adventures 

 with the pygmies, he descended the entire length of the Aru- 

 wimi, passing through immense tracts of forest inhabited only 

 by cannibals. He afterward descended the main Kongo river 

 to the terminus of the railway, whence he traveled to Matadi 

 by train. Although much of the route had never before been 

 explored, Mr Lloyd performed his hazardous journey without 

 any companions save a couple of Baganda servants and a few 



