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The ation gout with comprise 
(1.) Tog ying east of the British Colony of the Gold Coast ; 
The Cameroon in the Bay of Biafra opposite the Spanish Island 
of Fernando 
(3. German AME West Africa between the Portuguese Colony of 
Angola Ss Cape Colony ; 
(4.) German East Africa extending from Cape Delgado northward to 
Cire ‘Séasly opposite the GENER of v and reaching inland to 
Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria Nyanza 
(5.) German New Guinea P Tis Wilhelmsland, including Bis- 
d BT elago ; and 
(6.) Marshall Islands, a small group lying north of the Caroline and 
Gilbert Islands in the latitude of the Philippines. 
The following table will show the extent and trade of these Colonies :— 
| Volume of 
Area. | White Trade. 
Colony. (Imports and 
Square Kiloms. | Population. 
combined.) 
- "To ogo) - st - B E - 60,000 96 * 
Cam ; 495,000 230 520,316 
erm South-West Arien - 835,100 1,114 101,303 
penu Fast Afric - 995,000 600 593,329 
n New Guin oes 250,000 198 | — 
Marshall Islands - =| 400 81 — 
I! 
| 
Total - - = 2,635,500 2,319 1,471,692 
= 1,016,782 
| English square 
| miles, 
| 
Of these colonies Togoland is the only one that so far pays it way. 
In the work of maintaining the government of the other colonies a 
is estimated to be a E for the year 1896—7 of T —X 
ropeans 
anual work can be pervia and directed but not dndertaken by the 
white settler. They may and probably will become great trade centres 
for the development of German transmarine trade, but will not serve 
as agricultural colonies in whieh the surplus population of Germany can 
be absorbed, 
I.—TocorAND. 
This was the earliest of the German possessions on the coast of West 
Africa. The white population is almost entirely German, consisting of 
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