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10.1057/9780230270305 - The Statesman's Year-Book, Edited by John Scott-Keltie 234 THE BBITISH EMPIRE The Capo of Good Hojie ami \Wst Coast of Africa squadron usually consists of about sixteen vessels under a rear-admiral. The currency, weights, and measures are the same as those used in Great Britain. BOOKS OF REFERENCE. The Annual Bine Books of the various Colonies, and Reports thereon. Reports on Disturbances in the various Colonies. The Colonial Office List. Animal. Statistical Abstract for the Colonies. Annual. Banbury (G. A. L.), Sierre Leone ; or, The White Man's Grave. 8. London, 1SSS. Blyden (E. W.), Christianity, Islam, and the Negro Race. 8. London, 1880. Barrow (A. H.), Fifty Years in Western Africa. London, 1000. Mss (11. O. J.). The Relief of Kumasi. London, 1001. Boyle (P.), Through Kanteeland and Coomassie. 8. London, 1874. Crooks (J. J.), A Short History of Sierra Leone. Dublin, 1901. Ellis (A. B.), West African Sketches. 8. London, 1681. History of the Gold Coast of West Africa. 8. London, 1803. The Yoruba-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast. 8. London, 1894. The Ewe-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast. 8. London, 1800. The Tshi-speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast. 8. London, 1887. West African Islands. 8. London, 1885. Ferryman (A. P. Mockler), Imperial Africa. Vol. I. London, 1808. Freeman (H. A.), Travel and Life in Ashanti and Jaman. London, 1808. Ingham (Bishop E. G.), Sierre Leono after a Hundred Years. 8. London, 1S94. Johnston (Sir Harry), The Colonisation of Africa. Cambridge, 1800. Kemp (D.), Nine Years on the Gold Coast. London, 1808. KingsUy (Miss M.), West African Studies. London, 1S99—-The Story of West Africa. London, 1809. r. Lucas (C. P.), Historical Geography of the British Colonies. Vol. III. 8. Lon-lon, 1896, MacDonald (G.), The Gold Coast Past and Present. London, 189S. Musgrave (G. C), To Kumassi with Scott. London, 1806. Ortroz (K. Van), Conventions Internationales concernant l'Afrique, Brussels, 1898. Pierson (A. T.), Seven Years in Sierra Leone, London, 1897. Poole (T. E.), Life, Scenery and Customs in Sierra Leone and the Gambia. 2 vols, Lon-lon, 1850. Powell (R. S. Baden), The Downfall of Prempeh. New ed. London, 1900. Reindorf(C. C), History of the Gold Coast and Ashante. Basel, 1895. Sibthorpe (A. B. C), History of Sierra Leone. 12. London, 1881.—Geography of Sierra Leone. 12. London, 1881. Zululand. See NATAL. Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - Trial Access - PalgraveConnect - 2014-03-13
10.1057/9780230270305 - The Statesman's Year-Book, Edited by John Scott-Keltie BERMUDAS 235 AMERICA. Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados. See WEST INDIES. BERMUDAS. Governor.—General G. Digby Barker, K.C.B. (2,9462.), assisted by an Executive Council of 6 members appointed by the Crown, a Legis. lative Council of 9 members, also appointed by the Crown, and a representative House of Assembly of 36 members ; 1,112 electors. A Colony, with representative government, consisting of a group of 360 small islands (18 to 20 inhabited), 580 miles east of North Carolina, and 677 miles from New York, noted for their climate and scenery ; favourite winter resort for Americans. Area, 20 square miles (12,000 acres, 4,000 under cultivation). Population in 1899, 16,423 (including 6,282 whites); 10,627 belong to Church of England (census 1891). In 1899 580 births (98 illegitimate), 151 marriages, 4(^1 deaths. Education: 62 schools, with 1,104 pupils, 25 of the schools receiving Government grants, 1,2752. annually. In 1899 195 persons summarily convicted, and 8 sentenced by superior court. Chief town Hamilton, 1,296 population. Average strength of Imperial forces, 3,647. Bermuda is an important naval base on the North America and West India Station, with dockyard, victualling establishment, &c. — Revenue Expenditure . 1895 £ 37,830 33,006 18% £ 34,256 34,717 1807 £ 35,965 35,704 1898 £ 38,923 39,102 1899 £ 39,955 39,243 For 1900-01 the estimated revenue is 36,6482., and expenditure 40,5622. Chief source of revenue: customs, 33,1062. in 1899. Chief items of expenditure: salaries, public works, ecclesiastical, education. Contribution by Home Government, 2,2002. Public debt (1899), 44,8002. Savings bank deposits, 31,686. - Exports . Imports . 1895 £ 115,913 305,514 1896 £ 108,613 304,970 1897 £ 127,703 323,148 1898 £ 113,903 351,274 1899 £ 119,151 394,388 Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - Trial Access - PalgraveConnect - 2014-03-13 Imports subject to duty, (1899) 382,6052. ; duty free, 11,7832. Imports from Great Britain, according to the Colonial Blue Book, in 1898, 104,4082., and exports to the same, 2,0632. Food supplies are mostly imported from the United States and Canada, and nearly all the export produce of Bermuda goes to those two countries. In 1899 onions exported, 64,2252. ; lily bulbs, 17,4122. ; potatoes, 24,5182. The registered shipping consisted (1899) of 3 steam vessels of 703 tons net, and 23 sailing vessels of 5,524 tons net; total net tonnage, 6,227. In 1899 the total tonnage of vessels entered and cleared was 568,779, of
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