My first evening felt very lonely, but I was interested in
my work, and that helped to counteract my sense of solitude.
The air was wonderfully cool and still, and I was much struck
by the silence of the African night.
I here give the list of shambas on Suliman’s estate; the
annexed map will make their position easier to understand.
Of enclosed plantations, and not including Magarini, there
were eleven—
I. Shamba Baraka, very large, and containing numbers of
young coco-nuts mostly four years old, bananas, and patches
of sugar-cane, rice, and cassava, with many fruit trees.
