Fort Melangani to Dedza 



garments are to be seen mounting the steps most 

 reverently. 



The plantations cover a considerable area. 

 There is a banana grove, a coffee plantation with 

 shrubs about three feet high, covered with red berries, 

 almost ripe and ready to be gathered at the time 

 of our visit. There are orange and lemon trees, 

 quantities of pine-apples and pawspaws trees, which 

 here attain the height of a date palm ; also rubber 

 trees, but these were still in their infancy. A large 

 acreage was under wheat — a most important crop — 

 as wheat is not generally grown in this part of 

 Africa, and the cost of importation of white flour 

 is considerable. The wheat is pounded by native 

 women in wooden troughs, and afterwards carefully 

 sifted and ground in a hand mill. In the kitchen 

 garden there were all the usual vegetables, and also 

 a large strawberry bed in good bearing. 



The first of these mid-African Missions was 

 established in Uganda, and branches now exist in 

 East and in Central Africa, North-East Rhodesia, 

 and Tanganyika. The Mua Mission we visited is 

 affiliated to the Tanganyika and North-East 

 Rhodesian branches. 



Sport, unfortunately, failed during the three 



days we spent at Mua; and though A went 



out morning and evening, he saw no game. The 

 kudu had gone. He found fresh tracks of 

 buffalo in the forest, but they lived in a marsh, 

 which they rarely left except at night, and were 

 unapproachable. Had he been able to wait a 

 week he might very probably have shot one, for, as 



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