. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . -, and so I ordered Ramazan. A WA-GIKYAMA FAMILY. to have everything in readiness to start at daylight nextmorning. I saw the Giryama village head-man in the morning andexplained the objects of my visit to him, and made him asmall present ; he told me that this part of the country wascalled Mangea, after the hill. Leaving the village at followed a good path through fine forest, the lay of theland being gently undulating. Numerous villa
. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . -, and so I ordered Ramazan. A WA-GIKYAMA FAMILY. to have everything in readiness to start at daylight nextmorning. I saw the Giryama village head-man in the morning andexplained the objects of my visit to him, and made him asmall present ; he told me that this part of the country wascalled Mangea, after the hill. Leaving the village at followed a good path through fine forest, the lay of theland being gently undulating. Numerous villages and culti- 136 TRAVELS IN EAST AFRICA chap. vated clcariiii^s were scattered here and there, the lar<(er treesbein^ left staiuHn^. Cattle were comparatively scarce, fear ofMasai raiders deterring the Wa-Giryama from keeping largeherds, but they possess large flocks of goats which graze overthe clearings when the crops are harvested, and thus a greatdeal of what was once forest is now grass and scrub. Thesoil was everywhere excellent. The products cultivated by the Wa-Giryama appeared tobe— Mairje, Very extensively grown both for food and sale. Castor-oil, grown
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