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RACES AND CLASSES 
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The principal tribes in each province are as follows : 
In the Nyanza or Kisumu province — 
The Kavirondo Tribe, 
The Nandi Tribe, 
The Lumbwa Tribe, 
The Sotik Tribe. 
The native population was estimated at 887,000 in 
1909-10, and 1,100,000 in 1910-11. Undoubtedly 
the natives of nearly every tribe are increasing in 
numbers throughout the Protectorate owing to the 
cessation of war and the diminution of disease, but a 
good deal of this apparent increase is due probably to 
a closer census and supervision. The same cause is 
also partially responsible for the increase in the hut- 
tax, which has risen from 710,000 rupees in 1909-10 
to 802,000 rupees in 1910-11. 
The approximate numbers of the various tribes are : 
the Sotik 30,000, the Nandi 35,000, the Lumbwa 
50,000, and the Kavirondo close on a million. 
In the Naivasha province. 
We have the tribes of the 
Masai, 
Turkana, 
Suk, 
Kamasia. 
Of these the Masai are, both historically and 
politically, by far the most important. The total 
native population of the province is recorded as 
55,000 in 1909-10 and 113,000 in 1910-11. The 
Masai are probably increasing faster than any other 
tribe, but undoubtedly the former estimate was very 
