PREFACE 



I am told ; houses have sprung up like mushrooms 

 where I watched the butterflies flitting from flower 

 to flower. Settlers still have their grievances and 

 more, the native labour question is even now a 

 subject under discussion. I only try to describe 

 in simple words what I saw and found out for 

 myself, hoping the reader will not be too critical, 

 and that I may interest some. 



I have to thank Captain C. R. Bacon, Captain 

 J. P. M. Mostyn and Mr. P. de Lord of Zanzibar 

 for kindly giving me permission to reproduce some 

 of their excellent photographs ; the rest I took 

 myself. 



GiBRAEiTAB, September, 1908 



