GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



But to mention the races again, which really 

 were very enjoyable, friends meet friends and there 

 is a little excitement in modest betting. The regi- 

 ment or private folk give lunches or teas in little 

 places reserved for them and their friends. Just 

 before sunset, in between or during a race even, 

 one sees on the other side of the course, among the 

 coloured on-lookers, the followers of Mohammed 

 kneeling and bending at prayer, regardless of the 

 passers-by. In another corner the Swahili boys 

 will be having a dance, which consists of them 

 forming a circle and stamping round and round in 

 tune to the beating of knobkerries, in a most mono- 

 tonous manner. For the native population makes 

 merry as do the white people. 



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