. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . -. II TRA\ELS IX EAST AFRICA 51 deep and strong, and in heavy rains overflowing its banks onboth sides. Lower down a school of hippopotami werefloundering about and snorting. After crossing, we climbedup a steep bank of metamah and past a swamp, over whichwas a most primitive bridge, simply a number of loosesticks thrown pell-mell lengthwise across supports. Thepath now led by a village or group of slave-huts which weresurrounded by coco-nut and m
. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . -. II TRA\ELS IX EAST AFRICA 51 deep and strong, and in heavy rains overflowing its banks onboth sides. Lower down a school of hippopotami werefloundering about and snorting. After crossing, we climbedup a steep bank of metamah and past a swamp, over whichwas a most primitive bridge, simply a number of loosesticks thrown pell-mell lengthwise across supports. Thepath now led by a village or group of slave-huts which weresurrounded by coco-nut and mango trees and fields of sim-sim, rice, and bananas. I finally reached Shamba MPandianione hour after leaving the Sabaki, so I made the journey oftwelve or thirteen miles in something less than four afterwards found this to be the best road, as it passedalmost entirely through cultivated land, was nearly direct,,and, with the exception of the Sabaki river, there was nowater to cross. CHAPTER III FIRST EXPERIENCES ON AN EAST AFRICAN SHAMBA Preliminary Troubles—Incendiarism—A Refractory Native—A Shauri—An Encouraging Change—A Val
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