Articoli correlati a Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast Volume 2
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...Hindustanis would fear to face, not only the fever, but the savage. A gang of 500 negroes from Kihva or Arabs from Hazramaut taught to use moderate-sized mattocks, not the child's plaything now in fashion, well paid and kept at regular work, would soon, by their own exertions and by example, stimulate the copal digging into liveliness or break up the unnatural monopoly. But the Sayyid's government would object to such occupation of its territory; the Wasawahili Diwans would require propitiation; and in view of desertion, it would be necessary to make specific contracts with the chiefs of tribes, villages, and harbours. It is to be feared that such an DEPARTURE FROM SA'ADANI. 281 operation would not pay, commercially speaking, though every hand might produce, as it has been calculated he can, 12 to 15 Ibs. per diem. Willingly, therefore, as I would have won that highest of meeds, the gratitude of my fellow-countrymen by reducing the price of coach-varnish, I had fairly to confess that it was beyond my powers. The sole remedy is Time--perhaps an occasional East African expedition might be adhibited to advantage. As regards the limestone band, of which I had forwarded specimens from the Somali country, no traces were found till after leaving the modern corallines and sandstones of the coast which possibly overlie it. Our march to the Usagara mountains (5000 feet high) was more fortunate: a fossil bulimus was picked up in the Western counterslope of those Eastern Ghauts, about 3200 feet above sea-level, and calcareous nodules of weather-worn 'Kunker' were remarked in more than one place. Captain Speke (Journal, chap, ii.) afterwards saw at Kidunda of Uzaramo on the left of the Kingani valley ' pi-solithic limestone in which marine fossils...
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- EditoreTheClassics.us
- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 1230253971
- ISBN 13 9781230253978
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine114
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