24 GEOGRAPHY ; ZANZIBAR [ No. 96 Masindi , which lies on the road from Port Masindi to Butiaba on Lake Albert, and Wadelai on the White Nile.

In the eastern province, the towns are all of recent foundation, and are simply Government and missionary stations with a few Indian or Swahili traders., To the west of Victoria Nyanza the principal settle ments are Masaka and Kubendi in Buganda ,and Fort Portal in Toro.

Movement During the last 30 years , the population of the cen tral and western districts seems to have considerably diminished .

Birth and death rate statistics are very incomplete. In the districts under closer administration , comprising nearly half of the whole territory, 33,100 births and 29,697 deaths were registered in1914, amounting to a birth - rate of 23.4 per 1,000, and a death -rate of 20:5 per 1,000. This shows a decrease of 1.53 for the birth rate, and 1.91 for the death -rate on the figures for the previous year. The birth-rate is lowest in Buganda, where it was 12.87 per 1,000 in 1913 , and it seems that the Buganda population is rapidly decreasing.

ZANZIBAR ( 1 ) POSITION AND EXTENT The dominions of the Sultan of Zanzibar, when they were delimited in 1886 , included not only Zanzibar and Pemba , but also Mafia Island , a coastal strip 10 miles wide extending from Tunghi Bay to Kipini , the islands of the Lamu Archipelago, and the northern towns of Kismayu, Brava, Merca, Mogadishu, and Warsheikh. With the exception of the first, these ports have passed by purchase to Italy, and the southern part of the coastal belt, along with the island of Mafia, was bought by Germany and incorporated in German East Africa : The rest of the continental possessions are leased by Britain and administered as part of the East