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Title: South and East Africa
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Lucas, Charles Prestwood, Sir, 1853-1931
Subjects: South Africa -- History South Africa -- Description and travel
Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tish Sphere on the mainlandonly begins at the Umba River, a little to the north of Pemba.British East Africa is not a colony, either in the popularsense or according to the statutory definition which declaresa colony to be any part of the Queens dominions exclusiveof the British Isles and of British India. It is an aggregateof tribes and countries, a great part of which is directly underBritish Protectorate, while the rest is within the Sphere ofBritish Influence. Not only does it lack the unity which isimpressed on a people by a uniform administration, butneither in geography nor in history nor yet in religion canit be regarded as one. Though it has three considerablerivers running into the Indian Ocean, and though the Nileitself rises within its limits, the barren strip of land whichforms the background to the fertile coast has kept the 1 52 and 53 Vic. c. 63. Want ofunity inBritishEastAfrica. Toface.ptuit.lOlV^^ ©iPiUTllSHI :Brriis7vTossesio7LS C^J^reruJvJProjectxd/ Mxiih^ay thus.
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BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 107 interior from contact with civilisation almost down to our Sect. III.own day. —♦♦— The Arab, who is predominant on the coast, gives way inthe interior to various African races, Bantus, negroes, andothers; while the Mohammedan religion, which was long thesymbol of such civilisation as existed at Zanzibar, seemsdestined among the Waganda \ the most progressive of thetribes of the interior, to be superseded by Christianity, andthe mass of the natives in other parts are heathens. The country lies on the Equator, but it contains snowmountains; and some of the high land lying between thecoast and the Victoria Lake is said to be fit for Europeancolonisation. It is bordered by the great lakes of Africa, yetmuch of the Sphere, especially the parts towards LakesRudolf and Stephanie, is waterless. Geographically, British East Africa maybe classed roughly Threemainunder three heads: (i) the coast, which is low and ohtn^^^f^^^! ^ cat divt- unhealthy though ferdle;

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