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East Africa (PORTUGUESE possessions)

PORTUGUESE, possessions of Portugal. It comprises the province of Mozambique, capital Laurenço Marques; and Companhia de Mozambique; and Companhia de Nyassa. Total area, 428,132 square miles.

Pop. about 3,000,000 (1,050 whites, 1,100 Asiatics, etc.). Its coast-line extends S. from Cape Delgado, the S. extremity of the coast-line of German East Africa to Kosi Bay, just below Delagoa Bay, at a point separating British from Portuguese territory, as fixed by the Anglo- Portuguese agreement of 1891; the N. boundary is the river Rovuma, running W. from Cape Delgado to Lake Nyassa.

EASTBOURNE The frontier between German and Portuguese East Africa (until 1914) ran along parallel 10° 40′ S. lat. from the coast to its intersection with the river Rovuma, leaving the mouth of the Rovuma and Kionga to Germany, and Cape Delgado to Portugal. By the terms of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, to Portugal was allotted the territory south of Rovuma known as "Kronya Triangle," formerly belonging to German East Africa. The E. boundary is the lake and British Central Africa, or the Nyassa Protectorate down to the junction of the Shiré with the Zambesi; while from that point the British South Africa Company's territory, including Mashonaland and Matabeleland, and the former South African Republic, form the boundary .

EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE, now KENYA COLONY, British possessessions in East Africa, extending about 400 miles along the coast N. from Umba, at the mouth of the Umba river. The S. boundary runs from Umba in a N. W. direction to the intersection of the Victoria Nyanza while the 1st parallel of N. lat., skirts the N. shore of the lake, and thence W. to the boundary of the Kongo Free State. The river Juba begins the N. boundary, which from the intersection of the river with the 6th parallel N. lat. runs to the 35th meridian E. lon., and follows that to its intersection with the Blue Nile; the Kongo Free State and the W. water shed of the basin of the Upper Nile forming the W. boundary. The total area is 246,822 square miles, embracing a great part of Somaliland, the Equatorial province, Uganda, Usoga, Unyoro, etc. The population is estimated at 2,807,000, of which 5,362 are Europeans.

The Imperial British East Africa Company opened up the country, having in 1888 obtained a concession of territory from the Sultan of Zanzibar and a charter from the British Government.

An arrangement for buying them out was, however, made in 1895. The chief ports are Mombassa, the capital (pop. 30,000), Lamu, Umba, and Kismayu. In 1905 it was ordained that the Legislative Council should consist of 11 elected representatives of European countries : 3 nominated, 2 natives and 1 Arab. In 1920 British East Africa was annexed to the British Crown under the name of Kenya Colony.

EAST ANGLIA. See ANGLIA, EAST.