. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. FOUNDING THE PROTECTORATE 147 five in the adjoining Sphere of the British South Africa At 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 En
. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. FOUNDING THE PROTECTORATE 147 five in the adjoining Sphere of the British South Africa At 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,. m m -Kv- THE ZOMUA-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 1 1 o<Y. and 115^. od. a cvvt. In 1891 there were four British steamers'- on the Zambezi and Lower Shire (besides one steam launch owned by Mr. Sharrer), two 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 date of the publication of this book the number of Europeans in
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