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23 POPULATION

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of Mengo. Here the density of thepopulation to the square mile was 43.59, while in the district of Entebbe,

which includes many districts evacuated on account of sleeping sickness, it was only 8-29 . In the same year the population of the administered portion (four dis

tricts) of the eastern province was 1,111,901 . It was thin in Busoga ( 19} to the square mile ), but compara tively dense elsewhere (861 in Bukedi, 67 in Teso, and 65 in Lango). In the western part of the Protectorate, the district of Ankole had a population of 266,772 or 621 to the square mile ; Bunyoro 131,032 , or nearly 28 to the square mile ; and Toro 115,116 , or 20 to the square mile .

The population of the small Kigezi district in the south -west is dense , save in the great forests ; while that of the West Nile and Gulu and Chua districts in the north is not large.

The climate of the Protectorate renders it unsuitable for European settlement, and the number of European planters is not large. Asiatic immigration is more important , and most of the trade of the Protectorate is in the hands of Indians , together with a few Arabs and Baluchis. There is also a considerable number of Swahili and Somali traders in the territory .

Towns and Villages

The Baganda, owing to their numbers and the strength of their government , always possessed large towns and villages . The native capital, Mengo, or , as

it is now called, Kampala, was stated in 1902 to have a population of 77,000.

The administrative capital of Buganda , Entebbe, on Victoria Nyanza, has a considerable official population its importance as a native centre has , however, de creased in consequence of the removal of the lake-side population on account of sleeping sickness.

The chief port of Victoria Nyanzais Jinja, which is the starting-point of the Busoga Railway and of the

road to Mbala , the capital of the Bukedi district. Other places on the Nile route are Port Masindi.

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