. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . ian corn, beans, sweet potatoes, and tobacco, and passeda good many newly-burned clearings, ready for the of October and November. The grass was fully 7feet high. Next da)- I set off with m)- two head-men, and Ramazan asinterpreter, to visit two other Giryama villages some distanceoff Passing through fine open flat countr), glades andscattered bush, with a fine friable light soil, I came upona small Giryama village, and spoke to the head
. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . ian corn, beans, sweet potatoes, and tobacco, and passeda good many newly-burned clearings, ready for the of October and November. The grass was fully 7feet high. Next da)- I set off with m)- two head-men, and Ramazan asinterpreter, to visit two other Giryama villages some distanceoff Passing through fine open flat countr), glades andscattered bush, with a fine friable light soil, I came upona small Giryama village, and spoke to the head-man, as I haddone in the previous case, and he accompanied us to theother and larger village further on. On our wa)- I caughta distant view of the Sabaki and the country near it, coveredwith heavy forest. The soil here became more red-colouredand porous, and the drainage of the surface soil appearedremarkably good ; the forest becoming thicker as we pro-ceeded, and the country more broken and hill)-. On the wayI noticed a small field of specially fine tobacco; it wasluxuriant in the extreme, and the country about here seemed i.^^. .^v^^^::^^. TRAVELS IN EAST AFRICA 97 to me particularly well adapted for the cultivation of thiscrop. The soil was excellent, a fine friable black mould. The Giryama village I had specially come to visit wasright in the forest, and the largest I had yet seen. Thehead-man, by name Toyo Wabakulo, appeared most intel-ligent. On mentioning my idea of making a small experi-mental plantation at Jelori, where the people could come andsee the new products cultivated and obtain seeds, etc., hewas much interested in my scheme and offered to lookout and find a suitable piece of land for the purpose. Thishead-man accompanied me back to the camp, and in theafternoon (September 23) I held an important shauri witheight of the principal Wa-Gir}ama head-men of Jelori,including Toyo Wabakulo and Kizomba. I entered fully into the nature of my mission in thecountry, an
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