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MAYOTTE AND THE COMORO ISLANDS.

The archipelago of the Comoro Islands, comprising Mayotte, Anjouan, Grande Comore and Moheli, forms a colony which in 1908 was united to the general government of Madagascar.

The island of Mayotte (140 square miles) had a population (1906) of 9,989 inhabitants. There is an increasing emigration to Zanzibar and Madagascar. in 1902 there were 3 schools with 3 teachers and 78 pupils. The chief pro- duct was formerly sugar, but the cultivation of vanilla has now superseded that of the sugar cane. There are now only three sugar works and two distilleries for rum. Besides vanilla and sugar, cacao, alois and perfume plants (citronella, ylang-ylang, patchouli, &;c.) are cultivated.

Grand Comore, Moheli, Anjouan, and a number of smaller islands, have an area of about 620 square miles and population in 1911 of 94,844 (94,347 natives, and 497 Europeans). The Sultan of Grande Comore on February 7,