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I. GEOGRAPHY PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL

EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE

( 1 ) POSITION AND FRONTIERS THE East Africa Protectorate extends from the Indian Ocean to Lakes Rudolf and Victoria Nyanza It marches on thenorth with Abyssinia,on the south with the Tanganyika Territory (German East Africa) , on the east with Italian Somaliland , and on the west with the Uganda Protectorate . It lies between 4° 40 ' S. and 4 ° 30 ' N. latitude , and between 34° and 42° 40 ' E. longitude, and has an area of some 247,000

square miles .

The southern boundary follows a straight line north west from the mouth of the River Umbato Lake Jipe,

the east shore of which it ascends; thence it proceeds northwards, leaving Mount Kilimanjaro in German territory, to about 3° south latitude, whence it again . follows a straight line north -west to Mohuru Bay on Victoria Nyanza, in 1° south latitude . In the east the boundary between British East Africa and Italian Somaliland is the River Juba , from its mouth to the confluence of the Daua . From this point the boundary between British East Africa and 'Abyssinia follows the River Daua as far as Malka Murri . Thence it runs roughly west -south west, and again west, following tribal boundaries, to

the eastern end of the Goro escarpment, which it fol lows for some distance, afterwards turning in a north westerly direction to near the southern end of Lake

Stefanie, and thence directly west to Lake Rudolf . Between the East Africa Protectorate and Uganda the boundary passes down the middle of Lake Rudolf to the mouth of the River Turkwel , the course of which