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PEMBA. 



vegetation then new to ns. This was Pemba, 

 one of the three continental islands composing 

 the Zanzibarian archipelago : the Arabs call it 

 Jazirat el Khazra (Green Island), and no wonder ! 

 Verdant and fresh enough must this huge con- 

 servatory, this little and even richer Zanzibar, 

 appear to their half-closed ' peepers,' dazed and 

 seared by the steely skies and brazen grounds of 

 Manga 1 (Arabia generally) and Maskat (Mus- 

 cat), and by the dreadful glare and ' damnable 

 blue ' of the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. 

 We are soon to visit this emerald isle, therefore 

 no more of it at present. 



All had hoped to run in that night, but Pate 

 or our evil deeds in the last life otherwise deter- 

 mined. The wind fell with the sun, and during 

 the five minutes of crepuscule we anchored in 

 the sandy bay-strand under Tumbatu Island, 

 S.W. of Point Nunguwi (Owen's Nangowy), the 

 north cape of its big insular brother, Zanzibar. 

 Like the items of this archipelago generally, it 

 is a long cairn-shaped reef of coralline, with its 

 greater length disposed N.S. This well-known 

 norm of great peninsulas has been explained by 



1 Literally rock, rocky ground. Hence the Arabs are called 

 "Wamanga. Mr Cooley (' Inner Africa Laid Open,' p. 61) 

 blunders pitiably about this word. 



