. Les voyages dans les côtes de l'Afrique de l'est britannique et les îles de Zanzibar et de Pemba; leurs ressources agricoles et caractéristiques générales . eturning froman expédition infructueuse; ils ont dit que le pays a été Tooinondé pour faire n'importe quoi—nouvelles agréables pour moi! Ce trou d'eau, ou ressort, comme il devrait être plus correctlydécrit, est dit de ne jamais échouer, et est l'endroit d'où d'où les gens de Shakan obtenir leur approvisionnement en eau de saison sèche. C'est un lieu de halting-lieu pour les chasseurs d'éléphants et d'autres voyagele long de cette côte. Quitter la tournière et continuer pendant environ trois-XXIII VOYAGES EN E

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. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . eturning froman unsuccessful expedition; they said the country was tooflooded to do anything—pleasant news for me! This water-hole, or spring, as it should be more correctlydescribed, is said never to fail, and is the place from whence theShakan people obtain their dry seasons water supply. It is anoted halting-place for elephant-hunters and others travellingalong this coast. Leaving the headland, and proceeding for about three- XXIII TRAVELS IN EAST AFRICA 443 quarters of a mile along a very rocky coral sea-shore, I cameupon a high stone pillar and a ruined mosque and tombs, then a little further on I found more ruins, and about a milebeyond still more. These last included an old stone archway, evidently the remains of one of those old towns which weredestroyed by the Galla invasion, but of which these scatteredruins remain to bear witness to the large population—settlersfrom Arabia, Persia, and India—that once inhabited thiscoast. Their architecture, appearance, and the frequent. HIGH STONE PILLAK NORTH OF KAS KIAMBONE. adornment of the mosques, and often of the tombs, with thefine celader china, and even in some cases with Persian en-caustic tiles, bearing on their face the name of the founder andthe date when the mosque was built, often as far back as 650years ago, prove not only their great antiquity, but the com-paratively high state of civilization that must have existedamongst this now forgotten race. From the glimpse I obtained here and there over the lowwhite sandy ridges which terminate the coast-line, the interior 444 TRAVELS IN EAST AFRICA CHAP. appeared to consist of low undulating ridges with interveninghollows clothed with thick bush, while further away thereajjpcared to be forest. Continuing steadily along the beach, I observed a high headland in front, and the guides strikinginland towards it to avo

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