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 182 THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — ZANZIBAR PROTECTORATE

Imports

Imports

Exports

Exports

(1910)

(1911)

(1910)

(1911)

&

£

£

£

Cloves .....

—

253,470

430,991

Piece goods ....

180,979

209,495

138,231

112.924

Rice ......

153,039

183,813

43,430

57,255

Ivory

58,773

66.536

63,844

82,711

Groceries

37,007

60,003

S2,410

33,587

Petroleum

15.533

29,663

22,790

21,871

Grain and Copra

27,315

57,546

209,754

203,946

From or to —

United Kingdom. ,

110,123

111,609

64,472

115,994

British India ....

387,738

490,468

170,257

271,248

British East Africa.

68,342

103,215

112.023

94,194

Germany

34,902

44,713

67.512

111,754

German East Africa.

155,216

133.442

216,840

182,407

Netherlands ....

53,580

61,719

30,118

2,735

France

6,541

6,413

220,943

209,329

U.S. America ....

55,666

50,923

38,297

84,193

Imports into the United Kingdom from Zanzibar (Board of Trade Returns) 1911, 149,4017., including 43,452Z. ivory; 73,010Z. spices; 9,095Z. rubber; and 8,364Z. gum. Exports of British domestic products, 81,815/., including 21,115Z. cottons, and 8,713Z. iron and iron and steel manufactures.

Zanzibar is visited regularly by the vessels of the Union Castle Steam- ship Co., the British India Steam jSTavigation Co., the Ellerman-Harrison Lines, the Deutsch Ost-Afrika Line, the Mcssageries Maritimes, and the Societh, Nazionale di Servizi Marittimi, There are also lines of steamers between Bombay, Zanzibar, and Durban. There is direct cable communi- cation with the United Kingdom.

Sixty-five miles of roads are completed and 50 more are under construc- tion. A light railway of 3 ft. gauge from Zanzibar town runs northwards to Bububu (7 miles). The telephone system is fairly widespread, and there is wireless telegraphy between the islands. There were, at the end of 1911, 7 post offices. Received and despatched 1911 : 535,213 letters, 137,982 newspapers and circulars, and 5,727 parcels.

The British Indian rupee is universally current ; currency notes of 5 to 500 rupees are in circulation. A frasla (or frasila) of cloves is equivalent to 351bs. av.

British Agent and Consul -General. — Edward Clarke (also Cousul-Geneial for German East Africa).

Judges. — Lindsey Smith, J. W. Murison, and T. S. Tomlinson.

Consid. — J. H. Sinclair. Vice-Consuls. — K. M. Kohan and S. E. Kay.

Books of Reference concerning British East Africa.

Correspondence and Further Correspondence relating to Zanzibar. London, 1880-90.

Annual Reports of the Administrator of East Africa. London. Reports of H.M. Commissioner in Uganda. Reports on the Mombasa-Victoria Railway. Precis of Infor- mation concerning the British East Africa Protectorate and Zanzibar, revised in the Intelligence Division of the War Office. London, 1902. Report by Mr. A. Whyte on his Travels along the Coast-Belt of the Hritish East Africa Protectorate (Africa. No. 3. 1903).

East African Slave Trade, Reports, &c., 1870-71, 1872-73, 1887-88, 1890-91 ; paper.*; and correspondence 1892-96, 1897-99. London.

Foreign Office Reports. Annual Series. London.— Colonial Office Reports, Annual Series. London.