Note 457 — VIII

This figure indeed differs widely from the official estimate given for the total population for the whole of the Kameruns, viz. 1,300,000. Passarge very rightly doubts the correctness of the official statement, and estimates that there are at least 2,700,000 inhabitants in the Kameruns (Kamerun im Jahre 1907-1908, Koloniale Rundschau, 1909, p. 517). But even this figure appears to me much too low. [The official figure for the British Province of Bornu on April 1, 1911, was 674,230.]