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Title: Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: FitzGerald, William Walter Augustine
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Publisher: London : Chapman & Hall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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M'Shaka, and I was glad to halt fo breakfast at the same
delectable water-hole that I described on my journey down to
Zanzibar. The water was as black and thick as ever, and the
tea made from it was like ink! I drank it, however, which
was more than I was able to do at the water-hole further on.
This was on the outskirts of the Melindi shambas, the por-
ters discovering it close to the path; they brought some to me,
declaring it to be sweet and beautiful, but it smelt so
horribly that, thirsty as I was, I had to decline it with thanks—
the first time I had not been able to drink African water, so
the reader can imagine what it was like !
That evening I camped at Matagi. I had about three
men to a load, but even so they quite knocked up with the
heat, and it was not till long after dark that the last man
straggled in.
Next day we got back to the shambas and made quite an
imposing entry. One man had a drum, and another blew
vigorously on a penny trumpet he had bought in Mombasa,
and with the flag waving in front we marched in triumphantly.
All the women in the shambas who knew of the returning
Uganda porters raised a shrill cry of welcome as they
passed by, and I was not sorry to see my humble shed once
more.
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ARRIVAL OF THE NUBIANS AT MAGARINI.

CHAPTER XV

LAKE KRAWA

Nubian Labourers—Proposed Visit of Sir Gerald Portal—Start to explore
Lake Krawa—Arab Shikaries—My Caravan Astray—A Long Fast—
Oil Palms—Lake Krawa and the Kilifi River—Game—Mosquitoes—
Reconnoitring the Country—Return to the Shambas—Scarcity of Grain
—Disinterested Arabs—Flooded Back-waters—Dead Beat—Sir Gerald
Portal's Mission to Uganda—A Shooting Party—A Lion Story—
Christmas at Mombasa—A Wretched New Years Day—Fever-
Mango Crop—Mr. Weavers Work at the Shambas.
THANKS to Weaver's watchful supervision all was going on
well on the shambas.
Lions had again made their appearance, and made an
awful row the night of my return, roaring all night through.
Weaver, who had come down to see me, and had walked
back to Magarini after dinner, wrote next morning that
they must have been very close to him as he went home.
I was glad to receive a satisfactory report of the behaviour
of a recent addition to the estate labourers—some Nubians

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