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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 827, 27 May 1910, Page 11

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EMPIRE IN FIGURES. 1 385,375,000 BEITISH SUBJECTS IN 11,334.000 SQUARE MILES. BRITAIN'S TEADE. f The vastness of the British Empire is , reflected" in a statistical abstract issued recently giving details of population and trade. The following table indicates the growth of the Empire's population:— 1881. 1908. (estimated) United Kingdom ... 34,881,848 45,008,421 Australia 2,250,194 4,275,300 New Zealand 489,933 972,982 Canada 3,745,574 0,945,000 Tho total population of the Empire, which in 1881 was 303,091,000, had 'increase! by 1901 to 555,357,000, while tho area reached 11,334,000 square miles, giving nn average population of thirty-four to the square mile. The figure for the United Kingdom per square mile is 342.-1, for British India 213.3, for New Zealand 7.8, for Australia 1.3, and for Canada 1.1. About throe-quarters of tho total population of the Empire are claimed by British India, which* including the native States, has a population of nearly 300,000,000. Large cities and towns are taken separately, and appear in tho following order :— London 4,833,938 Estimated population in 1909. Calcutta (India) 1,01-1,433 Glasgow 872,021 Liverpool 7(10,357 . Manchester 055,135 Birmingham 563,(12!) Dublin 398,356 The course of Britain's trade, export, and import, with foreign countries and the oversea Dominions and colonies is thus indicated:— ■ • ■ £ 1899 1,103,788,000 1007 1,GG6,942,000 1908 1,498,028,000 Detailed analysis shows that Britain's ■ foroign trade in 1908 was 74.8 of tho > total; 25.2 being with tho various parts . of tbo British Empire. • Total InterImperial trade. 1894 220,G58,000 1 1900 397,280,0001907 431,021,000 ■ 1908 , 397,213,000 The number of sailing and steam vessels on the register has increased:— Tonnage. i > 1894. 10,512,272 1902 11,500,745 . ,1908 13,2G3,354 Comparative tables of the production ' of staple articles within the British Empire show tho following differences in 1907 and 1908;— 1907. 1908. £. £ . Coal 134,200.000 131,860,000 Diamonds 8,981,000 4,807,000 Gold 50,000.000 53,500,000 Tin 10,500,000 8,700,000 Wheat (bushels) 430,400,000 511,600,000 Barley (bush.) 117,000,000 117,400,000 Oats (bushels)... 424,300,000 4(39,400,000 Raw sugar (cwt.) 55,800,000 50,"800,000 Rubber (lb.) ... 11,940,000 9,623,000 Cotton (lb.) ...1,241,921,000 1,479,041,000 HERMIT OF THE MOUNTAINS. __ * LONELY LIFE IN AN AFRICAN CAVE. The primitive life of a collector and naturalist in British East Africa is described in the following letter, written in a eayo on the slopes of Mount Elgon, to a friend and comrade of. less solitary days:— "I am fifty miles from the nearest whito man, living in an enormous cave, on the escarpment of the mountain, at 7000 feet, and I want to work up and in the crater at 14,000 feet. It is two months since I heard a word of English. I have to send to a etore a hundred miles away for oatmeal, whisky, and biscuits. "I have seen hundreds of wild zebra, ostriches, and antelope—yes, actually hundreds, perhaps thousands. It is a wonderful country— on the Equator and yet at such an altitude that I often wake up cold, and my boys actually turn out at my morning call shivering with cold. There is grass enough going begging here to keep all the sheep and cattle in New Zealand. "From this bis cave in the face of the cliff I look out over hundreds of square miles of grass country. The whole place is most impressive, particularly through my being alone. No white man yet has ascended the mountain by the road I havo started on. The caves, tho waterfalls, the enormous uninhabited mountain, containing secrets yot unknown, strike mo with a\sense of awe. "My business is to turn ,£SOO given me by my employer into bird skins, rate, mice, fquirrels, and so forth. I havo out nbout fifty traps, and take a turn round ih»m with one of the boys about six o'clock in the morninfr, with my gun rendy, of comse, for what I cannot trap. I com" back to breakfast in my cave, and afterwards start skinning out and putting'un the night's catch or shnot. and purchiw what the Masai natives Vring in. with stilt, trade toVmceo. empty tins, or bottles. Perhaps I have done bv two or three o'clock; then I can climb thf> or bo down the ravine and search for unknown birds or ninu=e nests under stones, nr scinirrals, snakes, lizi'ds—iinv mnrlnl thin*. "I am out of whisky till a boy comes up from the Victoria 'vvanzn. I »i siinnly buried frnt-e! i-'iftv miles t.o n post offi™ and fifty mills'back—nil Hie way o'i foot at my expensn. and bv Hie tiro* T pii <n the summit it will he. eighty miles!" One pnuper hns been in the Spalding Workhouse for 61 years end another 50 year*. Th« two have co»t the ratefisycra ,£I2OO in food/alano.