FOUNDING THE PROTECTORATE 
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five in the adjoining Sphere of the British South Africa Company. 1 xTt the 
time I made this calculation as to the number of the Europeans in the 
Protectorate, in the summer of 1896, I ascertained that 30 were non-British 
subjects, and consisted of 13 Germans, 8 Dutch, 1 Frenchman, 2 Italians, 
5 Austro-Hungarians, and 1 Portuguese. Amongst the British subjects in 
the late summer of 1896 there were 119 Scotch, 123 English and Welsh, 
7 Irish, 2 Australians, 23 South Africans, 1 Anglo-Indian, and 3 Eurasians. 
The number of Indians has risen from nil to 263, of whom 56 were Indian 
traders. All these Indians, with the exception of 14 who were natives of 
Portuguese India, were British-Indian subjects. 
The total amount of trade done with British Central Africa in 1891, so far 
as I could calculate from information supplied by the African Lakes Company, 
THE ZOMBA-MLANJE ROAD 
was .£39,965 in value. In April, 1896, the year’s trade was computed at 
£ 102,428. The export of coffee in 1891 amounted to at most a few pounds. 
It is computed that in 1896 320 tons were shipped home from British Central 
Africa, and much of this coffee attained the very high prices of 113A. o d. and 
115-r. o d. a cwt. 
In 1891 there were four British steamers 2 on the Zambezi and Lower Shire 
(besides one steam launch owned by Mr. Sharrer), turn of which were gunboats 
belonging to Her Majesty’s Navy. There are now seventeen British steamers 
on the Zambezi and the Shire, and forty-six cargo boats mostly built of steel, 
besides innumerable small wooden boats and large cargo canoes. On Lake 
Nyasa and the Upper Shire the number of steamers has increased from three in 
1891 to six in 1896, in addition to which there are several large sailing boats 
1 At the dale of the publication of this book the number of Europeans in the Protectorate amounts 
to 315. 
2 In the twelve months from the 1st of January, 1895, to the 31st December, 1895, I0 9 steamers, 360 
barges, 169 boats, and 178 large canoes entered and discharged at the British port at Chiromo on the 
Lower Shire. 
