The West Indies, including the continental colonies of British Guiana and Honduras, and seventeen islands or groups of islands, have a total coloured population of about 1,912,655. The colonies of this group which have the largest coloured populations are:—
Jamaica—Chiefly black, some brown and yellow | 790,000 |
Trinidad and Tobago—Black and brown | 250,000 |
British Guiana—Black and brown | 286,000 |
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1,326,000 | |
The populations of the West Indies are very various, being made up largely of imported African negroes. In Jamaica these contribute four-fifths of the population. There are also in the islands a considerable number of imported East Indian coolies and some Chinese. The aboriginal races include American Indians of the mainland and Caribs. With these there has been intermixture of Spanish and Portuguese blood, and many mixed types have appeared. The total European population of this group of colonies amounts to upwards of 80,000, to which 15,000 on account of Bermuda may be added.
Africa.
Chiefly black, estimated | |
South | 5,211,329 |
Central | 2,000,000 |
The aboriginal races of South Africa were the Bushmen and Hottentots. Both these races are rapidly diminishing in numbers, and in British South Africa it is expected that they will in the course of the twentieth century become extinct. Besides these primitive races there are the dark-skinned negroids of Bantu stock, commonly known in their tribal groups as Kaffirs, Zulu, Bechuana and Damara, which are again subdivided into many lesser groups. The Bantu compose the greater part of the native population. There are also in South Africa Malays and Indians and others, who during the last two hundred years have been introduced from Java, Ceylon, Madagascar, Mozambique and British India, and by intermarriage with each other and with the natives have produced a hybrid population generally classed together under the heading of the Mixed Races. These are of all colours, varying from yellow to dark brown. The tribes of Central Africa are as yet less known. Many of them exhibit racial characteristics allied to those of the tribes of South Africa, but with in some cases an admixture of Arab blood.
East Africa.
| Protectorate—Black and brown: | |
—Natives (estimated) | 4,000,000 |
—Asiatics (estimated) | 25,000 |
Zanzibar—Black and brown | 200,000 |
Uganda | 3,200,000 |
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Total | 7,425,000 |
West Africa.
Estimated. | |
Nigeria (including Lagos)—Black and brown | 15,000,000 |
Gold Coast and hinterland—Chiefly black | 2,700,000 |
Sierra Leone—Chiefly black | 1,000,000 |
Gambia—Chiefly black | 163,000 |
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18,863,000 | |