. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . reason of a severe famine, with theintention of making a temporary sojourn in the hilly districtthey now occupy. Here the fertility of the spot was suchthat they said Hiidzire hiikauvia— We have come and weremain—hence their name. They multiplied at such a ratethat they pushed northwards into the Giryama territoryvacated by the Gallas, and claimed this particular district astheirs when the Gir)amas came to take their own again ). Mtsangamalc. Mago
. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . reason of a severe famine, with theintention of making a temporary sojourn in the hilly districtthey now occupy. Here the fertility of the spot was suchthat they said Hiidzire hiikauvia— We have come and weremain—hence their name. They multiplied at such a ratethat they pushed northwards into the Giryama territoryvacated by the Gallas, and claimed this particular district astheirs when the Gir)amas came to take their own again ). Mtsangamalc. Magogoni (stumbling-blocks, or, logs-in-the-path). TRAVELS IN EAST AFRICA CHAP. Rare kzva Mivnvinvo (Mwavuwos at Rare), a Ditjo settle-ment. Diiidiri kioa Ngonyo (Ngonyos at Dindiri), another Digosettlement, under the father (?) of the preceding chief. Siiiihimbc ( Touch me not, said to the encroachingKaumas by the Giryama settlers). Mangea, on the western slopes of the range of that name. Mangca-iua-Nyasi, Grassy Mangea, the plain to the westof the mountain. Fuladoyo (from the Galla, fuldoya = looking-glass). Migodoniani (the Mgodoma trees).. Mzvangiido (on the rixer of that name). Many of the malalo are now depopulated. One of themost populous is that o{ Magogoni, in Northern Giryama. In both Central and Northern Giryama, people in favour-able years reap large harvests. Fruit-bearing trees arecomparatively scarce in this region ; the papaw and pineappleare, however, plentiful, especially the latter. Coco-nuts,mangoes, oranges, and bananas are said not to do well, andlimes, and especially lemons, are poor. The numerous wild aloes, screw pines and bowstring hemps{SanSiiicrias), luiphorbias, the dried boughs of which are used TRAVELS IN EAST AFRICA for torches, and Cycads, are here and there burnt downannually by the people engaijed in making clearings forcultivation ; hence the ground becomes covered with analkaline ash, from which the salts are washed out by the rainsand carri
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