GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



but I should not think their " ghosts " were educated 

 enough to " walk," nor is there any record of any 

 Arab tragedy to account for the possession of the 

 house by restless spirits ; but it is lonely enough for 

 anybody to imagine they see anything after a time, 

 and also it is very unhealthy — Europeans cannot 

 live there long, and it has a bad record, including 

 two victims of blackwater fever. In the hall, by 

 pulling aside some curtains, I saw the two great 

 " war drums " and Siwa or horn of the Wahadimu, 

 which are preserved there as curios ; they were 

 most grandly made and very effective. When this 

 Mwenyi Mkuu (Great Lord) died in 1865, he was 

 buried behind the palace by the Arab Sultan Majid, 

 in the garden of what is now the German Club. I 

 went to see the grave, but he must have been fertil- 

 ising the shrubs for some time — nothing marked 

 the place, no grave was to be seen, and a boy told 

 me the ground had been dug up over him a long 

 while since. His son was nominally his successor ; 

 but living away from his people, he lost the power 

 his father had over them, and most likely there will 

 never be the same little independent sultanate 

 again. The Wahadimu breed cattle and goats, but 

 do not till the land any more than is necessary 

 for their private food supply ; but they are great 

 fishermen. 



The Agricultural Department have an experi- 

 mental garden round Dunga House, and the official 



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