Africa of to-day . ailways. As only the coast region of this country was knownto strangers until well into the nineteenth century,we find that there are many Arabian and Indianmerchants at the ports. In the interior there are manymixed races, Banta and Semitic; the preponderanceamong the inhabitants goes to the Swahili people. Butthe province is rapidly rilling up with immigrants fromEurope and elsewhere. Even domestic slavery wassuppressed from December 31, 1905, and since then allchildren born of slave parents are free. Before leavingthis colony we must comment again upon the remarkablefeatu
Africa of to-day . ailways. As only the coast region of this country was knownto strangers until well into the nineteenth century,we find that there are many Arabian and Indianmerchants at the ports. In the interior there are manymixed races, Banta and Semitic; the preponderanceamong the inhabitants goes to the Swahili people. Butthe province is rapidly rilling up with immigrants fromEurope and elsewhere. Even domestic slavery wassuppressed from December 31, 1905, and since then allchildren born of slave parents are free. Before leavingthis colony we must comment again upon the remarkablefeature of its physical geography. In the north theVictoria Nyanza basin drains into the Mediterranean;in the west Tanganyika into the Atlantic, and in thesouth Nyasa into the Indian Ocean. The principalrivers within the colony make their way into the last-named ocean. Portuguese East Africa. The official title is theState of East Africa. The coast-line extends fromio° 40 south latitude to 26° 52, where the Portuguese. Copyright, Underwood &° Underwood, N. Y. A Country Store in the Wilds of German East Africa Gaily printed calicoes from United States mills are very popular sellers EASTERN AFRICA 157 possessions join those of Great Britain; from north tosouth the distance is about 1430 miles. To the westare the British South Africa States, and the total area isabout 293,500 square miles; yet the population (in1909) was only 3,120,000. The colony includes theisland of Mozambique, the name of which was formerlythat of the whole territory. Save at Pemba, aboutmidway of the coast (where there is ample anchoragefor vessels of large size), the harbours are poor and few. The whole coast region and that portion of the Zam-besi valley adjacent to the river are very unhealthy, butthe higher lands of the interior offer a salubrious cli-mate. Wild animals are plenty, and plants, both tropicaland those of cooler zones, are abundant, so that theprovince still holds attractions for the naturalis
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