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In my flower gard'e-n • I 'grow the 4 Host beautiful roses I 
ever saw. There Is not a day in the year that I am without 
their blooms; also all the old English garden perennials, 
annuals, etc. Passi flora edulis and its cousin P. trifasciata cover 
my house and mixed up with it are Mandevilla suaveolens and Cobaea 
seandens, the latter though with very much larger flowers 
than I ever raised in either Virginia or Devonshire. 
"We have 250 acres in black wattle, Aeacia decurrens. It 
is now just 3 years old and is 30 feet high. In another 
year we shall cut it and strip the bark which is used for 
tanning in Europe. Sisal hemp is a great Industry here, the 
•fibre of Agave rigida var. sisalana. It is used for cordage, 
but of course you grow it in Florida so know all about it. 
Among other things that we grow here, but at different 
elevations, are coffee, wheat, rubber, cotton, cocoanuts, 
mangoes, and in live stock, cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, 
ostriches. 
"The dasheen, by the way, has been grown here by the 
natives from long before the coming of the white man. They 
call it Miwoo pronounced meewo. One tribe called Klkuyus 
are never without it. It would be Interesting to know how 
it came here, but of course the native knows nothing of his 
history and cares nothing. Unlike the tribes of south and 
central African savages, these of East Africa have no re- 
ligion or superstitions. They worship one god which they 
call Tumbo and it means their stomach. The only thought 
they have beyond that Is how to acquire as many-wives as 
possible. Natives use a nickname far everybody; they never 
learn one's real name but name one according to any pecul- 
iarity they may have. 
"The agricultural tribes are great farmers. Their 
methods are those of the stone age. The women do all the 
work; the men hunt, drink, steal, and stand around naked 
and discuss the value of the goats, sheep and cattle which 
they barter for more wives. The amount of maize grown and 
exported by just one tribe, the Kavirondo who live along 
the shores of Lake Victoria Nyanza, is astonishing. Another 
tribe raises quantities of beans, peas and potatoes. Today 
I have stood on top of a great hill on this farm, 10000 
feet high, but only about 1500 feet above the surrounding 
table land, and looked down through field glasses into Lake 
Victoria 80 miles away to the west, Kilimanjaro 19000 feet 
high away to the southeast, over to Lakes Rudolf and Bar- 
ingo to the north, and German East Africa 30 miles to the 
south. At the foot of the hill great herds of antelope 
and countless zebra graze. I have caught some of the zebra 
foals and intend when they are fully grown to cross them 
with my Somali pony stallion. 
