TIIE KILIMA NJARO EXPEDITION. 
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and tlie multitude of tiny craft, canoes with outriggers, 
and the canoes that are simple dugouts—all these form, 
together with the flags 
of many nations and the 
bright costumes of the 
native sailors, the blue 
sky, with its rolling cu¬ 
mulus-clouds, the placid 
sea, and the green islands 
on its horizon, an infi¬ 
nitely diversified pano¬ 
rama, rather than a pic¬ 
ture, but a cheerful scene, 
full of bright activity, 
and a pleasant field of 
contemplation to an idle man in a rocking-chair on a 
shady balcony, who is able to rest inactive in his cool 
retreat, and watch the 
busy work going on 
around him. 
If you look from the 
verandah of the Consu¬ 
late towards the town of 
Zanzibar you have a 
scene of much pictures¬ 
queness and colour, and 
one which, focussed and 
framed by the lattice- 
work that is hung with 
creeping plants, becomes 
a real picture. You see 
the ships in the harbour, 
the canoes and rowing- Fishing Boat and Outrigger Canoe. 
boats skimming in and out among the large vessels, 
Fig. 7. 
