. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . rnr-tftrrrnt. open Plain wi^ Scrub anscatter^ Hypheene to reach the town. Guided by the head-mans messenger, Imarched towards a coco-nut plantation outside the town, toreach which I had to cross the sea-creek on which the town issituated. Reaching the shamba I camped under some fineshady mango trees, close to an old stone well, said to havebeen dug or sunk by the Portuguese. The above sketch will assist the reader to follow mydescription of the to
. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . rnr-tftrrrnt. open Plain wi^ Scrub anscatter^ Hypheene to reach the town. Guided by the head-mans messenger, Imarched towards a coco-nut plantation outside the town, toreach which I had to cross the sea-creek on which the town issituated. Reaching the shamba I camped under some fineshady mango trees, close to an old stone well, said to havebeen dug or sunk by the Portuguese. The above sketch will assist the reader to follow mydescription of the town, the dotted line showing my route. Siyu, certainly the largest town on Patta Island, is situated c c 386 TRAVELS IN EAST AFRICA ciiai-. at the end of a narrow sea-creek, the approach to the townbeing defended by an old stone fort. Koyo, half-an-hoursdistance to the west, is the harbour for large dhows, and it isonly in the wet season and at high tides that boats and smalldhows can come up to the town. This has a considerablepopulation, and I was much struck by its appearance and thesize of some of its coral-built houses. Siyu is the principal town of th
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