THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
fJUNK I, 1894. 
and yams are also grown, but not in lerge quantitiee. 
Several of tljeee ijroductsgive two crops a year. Cattle, 
eheop and' goats thrive extremely well and the milk 
is wonderfully rich. Honey is aleo tollected and con- 
sumfd. . 
With regard to temperature and rainfall the country 
is desciiboi) fts peculiarly suitable to Earoptan agri- 
culturists. Tho climate is more like Southern Europe 
than Central Africa. The highest tlu rmomoiricil 
readiiig given between June and January ia 80^, 
registered in the month of October. The division of 
the feasons is aa follows : — From about the end of 
October to the end ot January, small raius. From 
l)eginning ot February to about middle of lifaroh, a 
short dry i-eafoa with few showers. From midolo of 
March to about beginnicff of May, heavy rains. To 
end of May, occasional showers. Fi om June to October 
dry season, with a very few local showfrs of light rain. 
The hottest part of thoyear ia from Octuber 10 March. 
These seasons affect mostly higher Ubambani and 
Kikuju. 
From the commercial point of view it is noticed 
tliat tho demand for trade goods increases steadily. 
Eightfen n\onth8 ago the demanl was almost oxola- 
sively for beads and brass wire. Now 50 per cent of 
the dt-mand is for the cloth, and whereas 18 months ago 
not 5 per cent of tlie population wore cloth, now it ia 
observable tbat the general custom is lo be dressed in 
cloth. A flourif-hing trade is confidently expected «s 
soon a trnnB]iort to the coast is made cheaj). 
The establishment of the authority of the company 
in Ukarabani has already practically extinguishi'd (he 
slave trade in Masai and Kikuyu captives which used 
to exist with the Arabs and Swahili dealers. The 
followii g paragraph of the report explains the posi- 
tion : — 
" Tho Wakamba living very closo to the Kapti Masai 
used to bo continually raided by the Mafai, and many 
men, women and children were killed. The Musai do 
not t»ke prisoners. In retaliation the Wakamba raid 
Masid kraals and take whateverthoy can get, including 
women and children. With the VVskambu, women and 
chililrcii prisoners are looked upon as being too useful 
and valuable to be killed ; firstly, they are useful for 
shaniba work, wi od ontliDg &c.; aiid secondly they 
used to be looked upon as articles of barter with the 
Swahilip, and according to all the information 1 can 
obtnin from the natives, it is evident that before tho 
oompany's authority wa9 esiablishcd here there must 
have been a pretty large trade in Masai and Kikuyu 
captives bstweeu tlio Swahilis and the Wakamba ; 
but as I have said before, the trade now in com- 
parison with the pa'-t oao almost be said to be non- 
exit'tant. 
" During our residence here the Masai raids have 
become very rare. What Masai prisoners are taken 
by local Wokamba in their raids are at our request 
broujjbt into the station here, Qu J during my residence 
I have recived from the Wakamba elders and returned 
nearly all to their own people by some means or other, 
the following people. AH or nearly all would, iu the 
absence of a European, have undouljtedly been sold to 
Swahili traders : — 44 Blasai women (11 with babies); 
20 Masai children (the above babies not counted with 
this); 14 Kikuyu women ; mnking a total of 89 souls. 
Anyone looking well into this question must readily 
see what would result ii our influence ia withdrawn. 
The insignificance of the slave trade here at present is 
not due to the Swahili or the Wakamba; the ccm- 
pany's occupation and influence with the natives is the 
sole factor in this good result. Iu isy opinion, once 
we withdrew from here (if withdrav/al ia possibh ) a 
brisk slave trade would once more rovive. Tho best 
Arab cr Swahili in the world cannot, as you know, 
resist the, to them, infatuation of slave-trading. Where 
there were slaves to be had there would the Arab and 
Swahili wend their way. Without European power and 
influence in tho interior, what is to prevent Arabs and 
Swahilis from comirig up, buying, end capturing slaves 
and placing them on thdr coast and inland shamban. 
A demand for slaves here would soon create a supply. 
Oar iufluenoe here has stopped both iho supply an l 
the demand." , . 
The report contBina some df script ioD of the bandi- 
crnfts to the Wskamba, who «ork in iron an'l hrnps 
ami have hitherto used tsni cd leather and a re Uftb 
mat' rial made from aloe fibre for clethts and domettio 
purpose*. The only ngritultuial in;p'enient8 it. ii»e 
ere, however, mi de from lard wood. The rela(iuu« of 
Wakitmba with the neigl'bouring tribes are also cnterKl 
into at fonie length. The Wakaniba Iheniselve* ar*- 
dcKciiled a< the predominalir g tribe. The day of the 
Wa (Jalla to the north appears to b&vo gore by. The 
Wii-kikuju »re detcribed as half and half Masai and 
Wakamba, without the good qualitiei r f either. Tlie 
.Masai, who have always been the deid'y fors of the 
Wakanil a, sre the Ifhmsclite- of East Ct-ntral Africa: 
They are nothing else then a well-trganiz(d and 
trained band of whcdesale robbers. Their hand ia 
agsii'.Et every other tiibe, aad iu threr felf-e'efeoce, 
every other tribe is against them. Nevertheless \li*y 
are paid to be straightforward, likeablp, and on the 
wbede dihpofed to be friendly with the European. 
Their gn at faults are their pillaging propecsities and 
their " utter disdain of all manual laboor." With 
regard to them the report continues; — 
" The wave of civilization as it advances in East 
Afiica must, of cource, severely affect, and cventuftHy 
cripple, theMaeai, and a new ephcremust be foui dfur 
(heir energies. As these civilizicg influences continue 
and go forward the Masai will hare to accept tho 
inevitable ; as he finds all the cattle countries gra'^nally 
closed against bim he must either cocje to terms or 
starve. If he comes to terms he must perforce accept 
the obligationa imposed opon him by civilizatioc — i.e.. 
to learn to live by other means than by piltatiiiig i4nd 
murder, and to learn to turn his hat d to noi eet work ; 
it can onlv be nbtolnte necessity or force that would 
bring the Elmoran to this way of living, but when he 
has arrived at this stege we shail have got a long 
way on the road towards civilizing East Otnttal 
Africa." 
Finally it concludes : — " The Wakamba are, I t-bould 
eay, superior in numbers to the whole of their imme- 
diate neighbours, and with a 6rm Government estati- 
lished in their midst they would quickly become the 
dominating nation in this part of the country. 
" John AiNawoETit, Commnnding District." 
THK PANAWAL TEA COMPANY. 
LIMITED. 
EXIEACI FKOII REPOBT OF THE DIBECTOBE. 
The net amount at credit of profit and loss ac- 
count, after providing for general expenses, Directors' 
a,nd Auditors' fees £1,649 12s 4d. 
An interim dividend was paid on the preference 
shares on 31st December 1893, at the rate of 7 per 
cent per annum, from the dates of payment of the 
various instalments to 31st December 1893 £211 IDs 7d. 
It is now proposed to pay the balance — viz., from 
1st April 1893, to the various dates of snch pay- 
ments, which will require £50 19s 5d. 
It is proposed to writeoff the cost of new land 
extensions, machinery, ttc, completed during the 
year, viz., from 1st January 1893 to 31st December 
1893 (in terms of the contracts for purchase), at a cost 
of £297 8s 6d. 
Also the preliminary and other expenses connected 
with the formation of the Company, requiring 
£298 4s Id. 
It is proposed to pay a dividend on the ordinary 
shares at the rate 6 percent per annum from 1st April 
1893 to 31st December 1893 (free of income tax), which 
will absorb £765 Os Od- 
Leaving to be carried forward to next year a balance 
of £26 93 9d.— £1,649 12s 4d. 
The Directors have p'ea.sure in recommending the 
distribution of a diviaend at the rate of six per cent 
per annum o;i the Ordinary Shares of the Ce^mpaiiy 
from. 1st April, 1893, the date the working of the 
Ei-tates was taken over by the Company, to Slst 
December, 1893. Owing to the prolonged dfnught, 
&o., the yield of tea in the nine months' working fell 
short of the estimats l.y 12,552 lb. It is proposed to 
write off the cost of new land, extensions, macbinet-y, 
