. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . d side terminating in a steep ridge 8 to 9feet high covered with thick bush, the soil being a lightfriable chocolate or reddish loam. I shortly afterwardsreached a second Watiku village called Vundene, about three-quarters of a mile from Shwe, which it much resembled, alsohaving its shambas inland. The path presently left the sea-shore, crossing a white sandy flat covered with thick fan palms,into thick bush with a reddish-yellow friable soil, on
. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . d side terminating in a steep ridge 8 to 9feet high covered with thick bush, the soil being a lightfriable chocolate or reddish loam. I shortly afterwardsreached a second Watiku village called Vundene, about three-quarters of a mile from Shwe, which it much resembled, alsohaving its shambas inland. The path presently left the sea-shore, crossing a white sandy flat covered with thick fan palms,into thick bush with a reddish-yellow friable soil, on emerging 43 432 TRAVELS IN EAST AFRICA CHAP. from which I came upon a third village, called SimambayaSendeni, about three miles beyond Vundene. This was the largest village I had yet come to, andpossessed a stone mosque. The village is situated on risingground close to the sea, with a harbour or landing-place fordhows. The walls of the houses were plastered with brightred earth, and the village had a prosperous look. The peopleowned neither cattle nor donkeys, owing to the prevalenceof the Ganda fly ; they had, however, flocks of goats, which. they purchased from the Somalis. There were some finetamarind trees and a few lanky tapering coco-nuts in thevillage, which the people informed me were not tapped for tembu, as their appearance at first led me to suppose ; thechief products cultivated here are millet and cotton. Leaving this village, which the people told me I was thefirst white man to pass through, I arrived about a mile furtheron at the village of MSwakini, divided from Sendeni bydense thick bush, amongst which I noticed many umbrella- XXIII TRAVELS IN EAST AFRICA 433 shaped mimosas. The ground was of a deep red colour, anevidence of iron in the soil, and in places there was a gooddeal of coral outcrop. In the small cultivated area roundthe village I observed a tobacco patch and some castor-oilplants. Hence onwards the way led uninterruptedly over anundulating country c
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