September, 1909. j 



203 



Saps and Exudations. 



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20*50 <5 10* 15 50 > 11' <j SOME NOTES ON CEARA 



20*35 22 19-50 12*25 PLANTATIONS. 



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15- 50 17-25 20- 16-50 By Geoffry Williams. 

 15-50 14*50 12*35 15' ,„ . ~ 77" , T , , 

 jg. 16*25 15* 11' (From the Agricultural Journal of 

 jg. y[. 13. y-5q British East Africa, Vol. I., Part 

 20- 10-50 16' 10* IV., January, 1909.) 



12-50 12' 14* 7- Of all the open districts of East Africa 



19* 18'50 (double 15- 10'*75 perhaps the least known is the forest 



17* 8- stems) 14*50 9 belt between Makindu and Voi. The 



■ few of us who live there dwell in a 



748 624*25 626*50 507*20 solitude that is but seldom broken. 



The trains pass by in the night, and 



when the hungry passenger reaches 



Sheet B ^ u or Samburu he quite fails to realise 



' that he has covered 150 miles of country 



Girth of 160 Trees on 31st May, 1909. during the hours of darkness. To this 



day I am asked in Nairobi if Kibwezi is 

 not the next station to Voi, or if I do 

 not find it trying to live in the middle 

 of the Taru Desert. But for all that the 

 day may come when this little known 

 area is one of the most important in the 

 country, and we even live in hopes of 

 the time when we may hope to board a 

 train at a more christian hour than two 

 in the morning, 

 doubl la spite of its bad reputation for fever, 



stem our part of the country is favoured in 

 many ways and offers good opportunities 

 to the planter. Everyone of course 

 knows of the big Sansevierea Fibre 

 Concession at Vci and elsewhere, and I 

 will not refer to them here further 

 than to say that in spite of the dangers 

 of fluctuation in price to which fibre is 

 subject and other difficulties, they 

 should become, with the aid of large 

 plantations of sisal, one of the most 

 important industries of the Protectorate. 



This article is, however, more parti- 

 cularly concerned with " Ceara Rubber," 

 the prospects of which are undoubtedly 

 promising. The soil and climate appear 

 to suit the tree admirably, and the some- 



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