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the predominance of the warlike Masai, who monopo lised all the open grass-lands of that region and were checked in their raids only by forest country.

Towns The largest town is Mombasa, the chief port, which has a population of about 30,000 , 130 of whom are Europeans. The other towns of the coast, all of which except Witu are very ancient, are now much decayed The most important are Lamu, Takaungu, Malindiand Kismayu, of which the last two have each about 5,000 inhabitants.

The towns of the interior are all of recent growth. Nairobi, the capital of the Protectorate, has about 14,000 inhabitants, including 800 Europeans and 3,000 Indians. Naivasha and Nakuru in the Rift valley and

Eldoret on the Gwas Ngishu plateau are centres of the chief areas of European settlement, and Kisumu op Victoria Nyanza is the terminus of the Uganda Railway Movement Although birth and death statistics are not obtain able, there is reason to believe that the former dominant

races of the Protectorate are declining. The new con ditions are unfavourable on the one hand to the Arabe and Swahili and on the other to the Masai . In addition to this, disease and immorality probably account for the infecundity of these races, while the same is said to be true of some of the negro tribes such as the komo and the Wanyika.

The Somali, on the other hand, are an advancing race , and the Turkana are also said to be increasing at the expense of the Suk and the Samburu .

UGANDA

( 1 ) POSITION AND FRONTIERS The Uganda Protectorate, lying between 1° 30' south and 4° 35 ' north latitude, and 29 ° 30' and 36° 5' east

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