GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



work, and he did not hand over his company for 

 three weeks after our arrival, so we could easily 

 have been allowed a few days longer, to see to 

 selling our goods and chattels advantageously, or 

 make other arrangements ; it would have saved us 

 a lot of worry as well as money. There were no 

 quarters for my husband, even if he had been un- 

 married, so we had to put up at the hotel. 



The Zanzibar Government's idea was to put 

 two officers in a house a Goanese hardly thought 

 fit to occupy, — two small rooms and a verandah 

 for meals. The Ministers and officials of the Zan- 

 zibar Government themselves lived in Arab palaces. 



By-the-bye I heard rather an amusing story. I 

 mentioned that before our second safari we met 

 two fellow-sportsmen, one of whom had come up 

 from the Cape, where his regiment was stationed, 

 for a shoot. It was his second ; after his first safari 

 his colonel also came up on leave to shoot, and 

 took over his subaltern's stores and chop-boxes ; but 

 he forgot to pay for them, and the subaltern felt it 

 would hardly do to remind his colonel of the trans- 

 action. But the colonel, careful man ! on his re- 

 turn to Naivasha, where he started, suggested to 

 the hotel proprietor (late an Hussar officer) that 

 he should take over what few stores he had left, 

 including such things as half-tins of sardines and 

 half-bottles of sauce and so on, for he felt sure they 



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