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THE KILIMA NJARO EXPEDITION. 
at afternoon tea on the balcony, it is somewhat embar¬ 
rassing for their gaze continually to encounter, not 
the black glistening forms of the burly negroes on 
whom nakedness sits with decency, but the yellow 
and obese Hindoos, who, with the figures and demea¬ 
nour of middle-aged aldermen, are paddling up to 
their ankles with the innocence and unconcern of 
early childhood. 
The buildings of Zanzibar along the shore-line are 
gifted with an adventitious beauty which is derived 
from contrasts of 
colour, and light, 
and shade. The Sul¬ 
tan’s clock-tower, 
which rises like a 
minaret above the 
flat-roofed houses, 
is in reality a struc¬ 
ture of vulgar, 
tasteless design, but 
seen from a dis¬ 
tance with its uodi- 
o 
ness softened down, 
it lends consider¬ 
able point to the 
harbour view of 
Zanzibar. The other 
buildings are little 
remarkable for ele¬ 
gance of exterior shape, but, being all whitewashed or 
of light-coloured stone, they form under the sun’s 
rays a snowy, irregular mass, the outline of which 
tells out effectively against a deep blue or a storm-grey 
sky, and is here and there relieved by the green coco- 
Fig. 10,—A View over the Housetops. 
