182 THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — ZANZIBAR PROTECTORATE
Imports
Imports
Exports
Exports
(1910)
(1911)
(1910)
(1911)
&
£
£
£
Cloves .....
—
253,470
430,991
Piece goods ....
180,979
209,495
138,231
112.924
Rice ......
153,039
183,813
43,430
57,255
Ivory
58,773
66.536
63,844
82,711
Groceries
37,007
60,003
S2,410
33,587
Petroleum
15.533
29,663
22,790
21,871
Grain and Copra
27,315
57,546
209,754
203,946
From or to —
United Kingdom . ,
110,123
111,609
64,472
115,994
British India ....
387,738
490,468
170,257
271,248
British East Africa .
68,342
103,215
112.023
94,194
Germany
34,902
44,713
67.512
111,754
German East Africa .
155,216
133.442
216,840
182,407
Netherlands ....
53,580
61,719
30,118
2,735
France
6,541
6,413
220,943
209,329
U.S. America ....
55,666
50,923
38,297
84,193
Imports into the United Kingdom from Zanzibar (Board of Trade Returns) 1911, 149,4017., including 43,452Z. ivory; 73,010Z. spices; 9,095Z. rubber; and 8,364Z. gum. Exports of British domestic products, 81,815/., including 21,115Z. cottons, and 8,713Z. iron and iron and steel manufactures.
Zanzibar is visited regularly by the vessels of the Union Castle Steam- ship Co., the British India Steam jSTavigation Co., the Ellerman-Harrison Lines, the Deutsch Ost-Afrika Line, the Mcssageries Maritimes, and the Societh, Nazionale di Servizi Marittimi, There are also lines of steamers between Bombay, Zanzibar, and Durban. There is direct cable communi- cation with the United Kingdom.
Sixty-five miles of roads are completed and 50 more are under construc- tion. A light railway of 3 ft. gauge from Zanzibar town runs northwards to Bububu (7 miles). The telephone system is fairly widespread, and there is wireless telegraphy between the islands. There were, at the end of 1911, 7 post offices. Received and despatched 1911 : 535,213 letters, 137,982 newspapers and circulars, and 5,727 parcels.
The British Indian rupee is universally current ; currency notes of 5 to 500 rupees are in circulation. A frasla (or frasila) of cloves is equivalent to 351bs. av.
British Agent and Consul -General. — Edward Clarke (also Cousul-Geneial for German East Africa).
Judges. — Lindsey Smith, J. W. Murison, and T. S. Tomlinson.
Consid. — J. H. Sinclair. Vice-Consuls. — K. M. Kohan and S. E. Kay.
Books of Reference concerning British East Africa.
Correspondence and Further Correspondence relating to Zanzibar. London, 1880-90.
Annual Reports of the Administrator of East Africa. London. Reports of H.M. Commissioner in Uganda. Reports on the Mombasa-Victoria Railway. Precis of Infor- mation concerning the British East Africa Protectorate and Zanzibar, revised in the Intelligence Division of the War Office. London, 1902. Report by Mr. A. Whyte on his Travels along the Coast-Belt of the Hritish East Africa Protectorate (Africa. No. 3. 1903).
East African Slave Trade, Reports, &c., 1870-71, 1872-73, 1887-88, 1890-91 ; paper.*; and correspondence 1892-96, 1897-99. London.
Foreign Office Reports. Annual Series. London.— Colonial Office Reports, Annual Series. London.
