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stantial two-story whitewashed stone house, the wreck 

 of orchards, and sisal fields. The town itself, of many 

 huts, is still a very busy place, for here land the dhows 

 and hence set forth the trading caravans for the Ikoma 

 and Tabora country, below where we had been exploring. 

 Here Cuninghame dropped back to try to sell the four 

 last donkeys. We hated to part with them, for of the 

 sixty-one animals with which we left Vanderweyer's 

 these four were the sole survivors. However, we could 

 not take them with us. Got 240 rupees for the lot. 



Here for the first time I saw houses made of adobe 

 bricks almost exactly like the old California article. 



Arrived at the new post of Musoma about two hours 

 later. It is situated on a long very narrow neck of land 

 that reaches straight out pretty close to the mouth 

 of Mara Bay. This land is very low except that 

 at the inner end two kopjes and at the extreme tip a 

 rocky knob mark the terminations. It is absolutely bare 

 of trees or shade; we camped on coarse quartz sand and 

 scanty grass. The "works " at present consist of a small 

 stucco house and a customs shed near the end, and a 

 wharf about fifty feet long made of loose stones dumped 

 down. A government house and two forts (!) are in 

 contemplation. A great many very neat huts made of 

 the clean-looking papyrus stems, and a double row of 

 Indian shops, represent the town. In charge is a Ger- 

 man non-commissioned officer, styled by all (including 

 himself) "Bwana Askari," and a German architect. 



