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MORTALITY. 



I believe them to be Pleiades, but my sudden de- 

 parture from the coast prevented my making 

 especial inquiries. "When this constellation is in 

 the west at night the peasants say, 6 Kilimia, if it 

 sets during the rains, rises in fair weather,' and 

 vice versa. Also Kilimia appearing in the east is 

 a signal for the agriculturist to prepare his land. 



Section 3. 



Climate continued — Notes on the Nosology of Zanzibar — 

 Effects on Strangers. 



The climate of Zanzibar Island is better 

 than that of the adjacent continent. Here many 

 white residents have escaped severe fever ; but 

 upon the coast the disastrous fate of Captain 

 Owen's surveyors, the loss of life on board our 

 cruisers, and the manv deaths of the 'Mombas 

 Mission,' even though, finding the sea-board 

 dangerous, they built houses on the hills which 

 lead to the mountain region of Usumbara, prove 

 that malaria is as active in eastern as in western 

 Africa. Colonel Hamerton once visited the 



