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and ' smelling dogs/ curs with clipped ears and 

 shorn tails, bought from bumboat men : en bon 

 chasseurs, they shoot the Sayyid's little antelopes 

 which troop up expecting food ; and sometimes 

 these sportsmen make targets of certain buff- 

 coloured objects imperfectly seen through the 

 bushes. The mouldering sepulchres in their 

 neglected clearings make the prospect of a last 

 home here peculiarly unsavoury, almost as bad 

 as in Brazilian Santos. Yet there are traditions 

 of Erench picnics visiting it to eat monkey — a 

 proceeding which might have been interrupted 

 en ville. 



Westward the line of natural breakwaters is 

 prolonged by Kibondiko, Le Ponton, or the Hulk. 

 A mere mass of jungle, it has never been utilized. 

 The eye, however, rests with pleasure upon the 

 sheet of sparkling foam tumbling white over its 

 coralline outliers, backed by dark purple-blue 

 distance, and fronted by tranquil, leek-green 

 shoal water. Connected with its neighbour by a 

 reef practicable at low tides, it is separated from 

 Changu, or Middle Island, by 'Erench channel,' 

 deep enough for men-of-war. The shoals about 

 it supply a small rock-oyster. The Crustacea, 

 however, is uncultivated, and amongst Moslems 

 it is escargot to the typical John Bull. 



