[127-3] Cf. Ency. Brit., vol. xviii. p. 789.

[130-1] A Review of the Present Mutual Relations of the British South African Colonies, to which is appended a Memorandum on South African Railway Unification, "Printed by Authority" [Johannesburg, 1907]; Lord Selborne's letter of January 7, 1907, p. viii.

[132-1] Sir Harry H. Johnston in Nineteenth Century, London, March 1912, questions the appropriateness of leaving these dependencies in the care of Portugal. Cf. thirteen months later, Springfield (Massachusetts) Weekly Republican, June 12,1913: "That something is brewing in the way of a partition of Portuguese Africa seems likely despite official disclaimers, and the London Spectator now sketches a hypothetical division. . . . " Cf. Transvaal Leader, Johannesburg, December 5, 1912, for an account of Lourenço Marques' "warning against the neglectful attitude of the Home [Lisbon] Government toward this Colony."

[132-2] The ratio of the population of British India to the British Isles is approximately 7 to 1. A like ratio exists between the populations of the Dutch Indies and Holland. Cf. A. Cabaton, Java, Sumatra, and the other Islands of the Dutch East Indies, trans. Bernard Miall, London, 1911, p. 26.

[133-1] George Philip & Son Ltd., Chamber of Commerce Atlas, London, 1912, p. 32.

[134-1] J.R. Seeley, The Expansion of England, London, 1883, p. 20.

[134-2] Cf. W.M. West, Modern History, Boston, rev. ed., 1907, pp.300-301.

[134-3] Ibid., pp. 294, 295.

[134-4] C.A.W. Pownall, Thomas Pownall, London, 1908, p. 95. This was as of 1758.

[136-1] Round Table, London, June 1913, p. 485.