. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . TRAVELS IN EAST AFRICA the property.^ This plantation, as well as others adjacent to it,was entered through a massive wooden gateway, and protectedby a thick impenetrable thorn fence surrounding it on allsides. Leaving the plantations and passing some scattered housesand cultivated plots, we came to a large valley where Sulimanhad formerly grown sugar-cane. A good deal of it was stillgrowing wild, and in its centre stood the abandoned sugar-millwi
. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . TRAVELS IN EAST AFRICA the property.^ This plantation, as well as others adjacent to it,was entered through a massive wooden gateway, and protectedby a thick impenetrable thorn fence surrounding it on allsides. Leaving the plantations and passing some scattered housesand cultivated plots, we came to a large valley where Sulimanhad formerly grown sugar-cane. A good deal of it was stillgrowing wild, and in its centre stood the abandoned sugar-millwith its disused and rusty machinery. We then passed thesecond slave village on our right. Just ahead of us, risingout of the sugar-cane valley, was a low hill called Magarini,. NATIVK ;—SHAMHA M IANDIAM. and on its top was situated the third and largest slave village,a ruined mosque, patches of cultivated land, and Sulimanshouse, these being surrounded by a strong wooden stockade,and the entrance defended by an old cannon. Sulimanshouse was our head-quarters, and there we arrived at 6 found that the three camels carrying our gear had not yetturned up—what had arrived had suffered severely in itspassage over the Sabaki—all the lanterns and my filter werebroken, the sugar had all melted, and only one whole tumblerwas left ! However, we all thoroughly enjoyed our make- 1 All the slaves were freed by order of the Directors of the Company,and employed on wages as free people. 22 IN KAST AFRICA CHAI. shift meal of bacon and eggs, and sweet biscuits, supplementedwith the LiwaHs rice and a corn-flour pudding. Said bin Hamid gave us his own tent, and he slept in theverandah. It was m}^ first night in a tent, and a truly miser-able one it
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