[No. 96 III . SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONDITIONS (1) RELIGIOUS ( a ) East Africa Protectorate MOHAMMEDANISM is reported to have made much pro gress on the coast, but not in the interior; in other words, it accompanies the Arab. The very large majo rity of the population of the Protectorate are pagans, among whom many Christian missions are at work Protestant and Roman Catholic, British , American , French, Italian , and Swedish.

(6) Uganda The population of the Protectorate is stated to con sist of nearly 2,000,000 pagans , 73,000 Mohammedans , 200,000 Protestants, and 230,000 Roman Catholics . It has been a great field of missionary effort, and Christ ianity has been much more potent than Mohammedanism .

There are three missionary societies at work—the Church Missionary Society and two Roman Catholic bodies , the White Fathers of Algeria , and the Mill Hill Mission .

(c) Zanzibar The majority of the natives are Mohammedans (Sunnis of the Shafi school ) . The Swahili combine much superstition with their Mohammedanism . The Sultan and his relatives belong by longfamily tradition to theIbadhi (or I-badiyah) sect of Islam (founded by Abdallah bin I -bâdh in A.D. 744 in Oman, and always counting the Imâms of that country among its adher ents). This divergence of creed seems never to have