. Reisen in den Küsten des britischen Ostafrikas und den Inseln Sansibar und Pemba; ihre landwirtschaftlichen Ressourcen und allgemeine Merkmale . Die vier Pflanzen gehören zu zwei Arten, Gossypiuni barbadensc und G.arhorcuiii. Am nächsten Morgen, 7. Oktober, wurde ich genommen, um die deadcoco-Nüsse zu besuchen; sie waren in einer alten vernachlässigten Shamba, die myguide zugab, war für einige Zeit verlassen worden; Es gab dort noch ein paar Bäume, aber das Land war wieder einfach in den Busch zurückgekehrt, und kein Wunder, dass die Bäume gestorben waren, denn die Kokos-Nuss ist, vor allem Bäume, besonders sinnvoll zu 148 REISEN IX OSTAFRIKA CHA

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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 . The fourplants belong to two species, Gossypiuni barbadensc and G.arhorcuiii. Next morning, October 7, I was taken to visit the deadcoco-nuts ; they were in an old neglected shamba, which myguide admitted had been abandoned for some time ; therewere a few trees still surviving, but the land had simplyreverted back to bush, and no wonder the trees had died, for the coco-nut is, above all trees, particularly sensible to 148 TRAVELS IX EAST AFRICA CHAP. neglect. A few trees growing;- in the town were ni.iture andfull-grown, and appeared health)- enough ; I consider thatneglect was the sole cause of their failure both here and atTakaungu. When young the trees are cared for; for whileground i)roduce is grown for the first two years the groundis kept clean and weeded, but when this is discontinued, the soil being so rich that the bush—never rooted out butonly cut down—soon springs up again, the trees have theirfurther growth checked by the rank vegetation quicklycrowding up arc^und them.. NATIVE SHAMBA, M TONDOA. I give for comparison the prices of coco-nuts in MTondoa, Takaungu, and Melindi— MTondoa. Takaungu. Melindi. Green i pice. i pice. i pice. Dry 3 to 4 pice. 6 pice. 2 pice. Leaing MTondoa, I passed througli fine forest-land andone cultixated shamba, the path then leading through unbrokenforest extending from the sea to the Giryama country. Thelay of the land was ver)- flat, the soil a good chocolate loamand very rich. As I proceeded the forest became thicker andheavier, and I frequentl}- noticed rubber vines as I passed b}, and was told that they were ver- plentiful all round here. It TRAVELS IN EAST AFRICA 149 occurred to me that this forest offered a fine field for experi-mental rubber cultivation ; as apart from the La)idolphice^experiments could also be tried with Castilloa and Pararubber. I continued through

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