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 186 THE BRITISH EMPIRE : — NYASALAND PROTECTORATE

Money, Weights, and Measures.

On June 30, 1911, the Government Savings Bank held deposits amounting to Rs. 3,254,195 (216,946^.) belonging to 28,032 depositors. All accounts are kept in Indian rupees The metric system is in force.

Dependencies.

RoDRiGUES (under a Magistrate). — 18 miles long, 7 broad. Area, 40 square miles. Population (census 1911) 4,829 ; revenue (1911), 969Z. ; expenditure, 2,8171. ; imports (1911), 15,364Z. ; exports, 8,176Z. Two Government schools had (1911) 158 pupils in average attendance. Savings Bank (June 30, 1911), 46 depositors and Rs. 22,322 ("l,488Z.) deposits.

Other dependencies are the St. Brandon or Cargados Islands, 16° 32' S, lat, and 59° 37' E. long., mostly sandbanks; the Chagos Islands, and the Trois Freres, or Eagle Islands.

Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos group, in 7° 20' S. lat., 72° 26' E. long., is 12J miles long, 6^ miles wide, with 517 inhabitants (census 1911), a large proportion negro labourers from Mauritius. 272,800 gallons of cocoa-nut oil were exported in 1911 from the Lesser Dependencies.

Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Mauritius

Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions. London.

Colonial Office List. Annual. Loudon.

Gleadow (F.), Report on tl^e Forests of Mauritius, 1904.

Reports on Mauritius, and on Rodrigues, in Colonial Reports. Annual. London.

Statistical Abstractfortlieseveralcolonial and other possessions of the United Kingdom Ann lal. London.

Mauritius Blue Book. Annual.

Mauritius Royal Couiniissiou 1909.

Anderson (J. P.), The Sugar Industry of Mauritius. London, 1899.

Decotter (N.), Geographie de Maurice et de ses Dependances, Mauritius, 1891.

Spinal/ (Adrien d'), Renseignenients pour servir a I'histoirt de I'lle de Francejusqu'A I'annee 1810 inclusivement. Mauritius, 1890.

Keller (C), Madagascar, Mauritius, and other East African Islands. London, 1900.

The Mauritius Almanac. — The Mtiuritius Civil List. Mauritius.

Rae{W. C), Handbook on the Constitution, Practice, and Proceedings of the Council of Government. Mauritius, 1901

NYASALAND PROTECTORATE (BRITISH).

The Nyasaland (until 1907 British Central Africa) Protectorate, con- stituted on May 14, 1891, lies along the southern and western shores of Lake Nyasa, and extends towards the Zambezi. It is administered under the Colonial Office by the Governor and Commander-in Chief, assisted by an Executive and a Legislative Council, both consisting of nominated members, and the Governor having the right of veto (Order in Council of September 4, 1907). Area, 39,801 square miles, divided into fourteen districts, each administered by a Resident and his assistants. Population, 1912, 773 Europeans (mostly in the Shire province), 463 Asiatics, and about 1,000,000 natives. The chief settlement is Blantyre, in the Shire Highlands ; others are Zomba (the seat of Government), Chiromo, Port Herald, Fort Anderson, Limbe, Liwonde ; on Lake Nyasa are Fort Johnston, Kotakota, Bandawe, Chintechi, Nkata, Likoma, and Karonga. Good roads are being made in all directions, and life and property are safe. Eleven Christian missions are at work ; 1,527 schools, with 130 European teachers, 119,000