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Braking CIovm From the Stems; Zanzibar.
(rn^inl by th« National Qeorraphlo So
ciety, Wajhlnaton, D. C.)
Zanzibar, romantic melting pot off
the east coast of Africa, a sort of
Island vestibule to Kenya, England’s
latest colony,.does not share the upset
conditions of that mainland' region
which has recently kept the British
cabinet In hot water. Nominally under
its sultan, and largely ruled by a
British high commissioner and a Brit
ish' resident,' the Island goes on the
more or less serene way of the trans
planted East, furnishing plots for
comic operas and cloves for most of
the spice-loving world.
Hundreds of tourists and govern
ment employees, on the m: if old er
rands of empire, see the town of Zan
zibar without knowing' much of It or
ever exploring beyond the English ten
nis club. But this Is less remarkable
than the fact that merchants, priests,
secular missionaries, military and dip
lomatic personages, Indians, Arabs,
Pants and Europeans (as Inconspicu
ous artlsahs or petty traders) actually
live In the town year In and year out
without so much as walking half a
mile beyond the terminus of the little
American railway at Bn-bu-bu, a vil
lage a few miles from the town Itself.
The precedent for this neglect—and
the social fabric of Zanzibar Is de
pendent on precedent—Is undoubtedly
the Indifference of the early explorers
who fitted out carnvnns In the old
town and, bent on discovering a vol
cano or a nyanza far afield, never
wasted time In wandering about the
glorious Island Itself
On the first day that one leaves the
road behind and finds oneself at large
in the dense green of Zanzibar’s titanic
verdure one Is conscious of a newness
of Interest as when one reads for the
first time some book of very distinctive
Imaginative quality.
Tbe woods and neids, tne snamoas
(plantations), are like tbe contents of
a Brobdlngnaglan glass house; the col
ors of flowers- and trees themselves
are so elementary as to seem ilke a
child’s concept of beauty In nature,
and when, unexpectedly, without prep
aration of any kind, the sight of «the
clove trees, shining green, red
stOmmed, symmetrical, stretches be
fore one, with the ultramarine of the
Indian'ocean as a background for their
unequaled loveliness, tbe beauty of the
whole writes Itself on the memory of
the most commonplace of observers as
an indelible delight.
As Largs as Long Island.
Tbe Island, about the same slse In
square miles as Long island, is of a
different shape, being shorter and
much broader. It is one of Great Brit
ain’s protectorates.
To the south of Ahe town the land
scape is not so redundant and riotous
In vegetable expression, but goats
abound and And all they need in the\
way of food to make them marketable.
' But to the north the mango trees,
palips, cloves and every form of orahge
and lemon crowd thick and glorious
-under the most primitive of husband
men. Just as Africa Itself is.netted
over with aimless foothpaths, so Is
Zanzibar veined with little tracks worn
deep Into the living green so long ago
that no tradition follows the feet of
those who'made them.
The industrial life of Zanzibar has
changed three times since David Liv
ingstone cried for mercy for the black
man, who sorely needed it. Under the
Arabs the town was a slate center,
where the poor-creatures who were
caught lq the course of one of Tlppoo
Tib’s “war walks” into the interior
were brought to the Island carrying
ivory, and prepared by various heavy
handed methods for servjce as slaves
on the Persian gulf or in the shambas
and warehouses of Zanzibar itself. The
Arabs achieved the best negreee-imag
lnable, whatever their methods may
have been, and when England ruined
Tlppoo Tib by her tflsve regulations
ivory took the place of slavee as a
trade staple, and dealers from hither
and you brought their ivory tor sale
to the quaint Arab famn, whose sani
tation was then n By-word of the East
The bodies of dead slaves were fre
quently jfinX out on the bench by Arabs*
too Inhuman to give them burial, and
animals who had died were disposed
of in the same fashion. Bath water
was Informally evicted through harem
windows, add all the wanton waste of
the cooking department In lkrge Arab
houses was banked up by the kitchen
doors. There Is a tendency to , that
sort of thing still, but Zanzibar’s West
ern health officers have removed Sir
Richard Burton's reproachfully apt
epithet of filth In connection with Zan
zibar town.
Cloves Are Its 8alvatlon,
But the third and last phase of In
dustry In Zanzibar has been Its salva
tion, and will keep It alive as a place
of Importance long after Uombasa
has cauqht up with and passed Jt as
the center for general trade and the
entrepot for the African hinterland.
This last phase Is clove cultivation,
and the history of the clove In Zanzi
bar Is a record of such pluck and fore
sight as may well teach a lesson to
the proud Saxon «rho considers his
race a monopolist of both qualities.
In 1860 an Arab named Tellm bln
lose came up from Mauritius with a
handful of cloves In his pocket and
2w> plants to put Into' his shamba.- His
Idea o{ agriculture was very unique,
and he only Intended to persevere In
clove culture If he could depend on a
crop after every neglect anfl affront
had been offered his trees. Their
beauty (cloves are a kind of myrtle
and exquisite In appearance) excited
the interest of Said Burgash, about to
become Zanzibar’s sultan, and he wrote
at once to the Moluccas to obtain the
finest plants which could be bought
for money.
Two Dutch ships brought them in
an unusually short time, and the sul
tan, the most remarkable man Zanzi
bar has ever produced err associated
with Its fortunes, sent out numbers of
his henchmen to compel laborers from
every side to get the plants Into the
soli Immediately. He had read up the
whole subject In a book of French au
thorship, which he had caused to be
written out In Arabic, apd saw that
the enterprise had ,a great mercantile
future for Zanzibar. He knew that the
Island’s supremacy as a trade center
would pass, and he hoped to make It,
with Pemba, the extremely fertile but.
rather uninteresting Island to Zanzi
bar’s north, paramount In the world of
spices.
In 1872.a cyclone blew over Zanzi
bar, which uprooted all the clove trees
and blew the coconuts flat to .the
earth without breaking them. Many
clove trees were blown into the sea;
many were broken off short. > Within
,a week after the storm Said Burgash
was rounding up his laborers again
and sending hither and yon for plants,
which he presented to the poorer
-Arabs, who had seized on the. Idea of
a crop which could be sold' to Euro
peans, and had put their all Into the
purchase of plants and slaves for theli'
culture.'
From that second planting comes
the great bulk of the world's clove
supply today, aqjl when one realizes
that the least output of cloves per, an
num has amounted (from Zanzibar
alone) to 80,000 bales and the great
est output to 200,000, and when one
furthermore realizes that the-govern
ment claims as tax one bag out of
each five, one may catch a vista of
Bbrgash's dream, and concede that
the Oriental has In part the greatest
of mental attributes—Imagination.
One might write a book osrZanzlbar.
and In the hurry of Its beauties and
the horrors of its pystprious catas
trophes, like the smallpox epidemic or
the bubonic plague, forget to tell the
of. its wonders. It will always
mala Ip one's mind like a soiled
tge of the "Arabian Nights,” with
what promised to be a splendid out
come ruined bf some fearful visitation
of cyclone or of sickness. But the in
trinsic strength of the Island continues
in thh dove crop and has attracted an
enormous number of Indians, who are
fast driving out the Arah-and keeping
up a desultory intercourse with India -
ter. caits reasons.
Movie' Patrons to See the Solar Eclipse
Science expects to make It possible for one to see the total solar eclipse of September 10 in tjie movies In three
minutes Instead of spending two hours and fifty-five minutes watching It, by the use of equipment which Is being
shipped from the Yerkes observatory of the University of Chicago to Santu C’ntallna Island, Cal: Capt. Barnett Har
ris of Chicago, under the direction of Dr. Edwin B. Frost, will photograph the eclipse with- four cameras In batteries
of twos, which will be placed fifteen miles apart so as to minimize cloud Interference. Two of the cameras will Work
automatically during the eclipse, and when the Job Is completed it will be shown throughout the United States. The
signal corps and air service of the War department are co-operating with special lenses and apparatus. The automat
ic cameras are driven by electro-magnets, and the work of this expedition will be observed with a great deal of Interest
by the public and scientific world. The photograph shows Captain Harris and some of the equipment to be used.
“LET ME STAY,” SAID CAL
“1 like the job. 1 want to stick to
It. Please let me stay,” was the clos
ing phrase In the letter young Cal
Coolidge wrote to his mother just
after having learned that his father
had been elevated to the presidency.
Here’s Cal on the Job—working In a
tobacco field at Hatfield, HaSs., for
$8 a day.
GRANDSON OF A KING
Princess Mary, Viscountess Lnscelles,
with her son, George Henry Hubert,
named for his father and his grand
father, King George, from a portrait
Just received In this country.'
MR. COOGAN’S .FAVORITE
Here's a < much envied girl. She is
Uttle Peaches Jackson, and Jackie
Coogan—you know him—has shown a
preference for 'her. Peaches la his
constant companion, the youngsters
playing together at every opportunity.
Parade of Athletes in Paris
Photograph of thousands of young French athletes marching through the
Arc de Trlomphe under which Is buried France’s Unknown Soldier. These
young men are preparing for the future athletic meets In which they will
strive to represent France.
Scene in Bryce Canyon Monument
The newest national monument was established by the late President
Harding In a proclamation which set aside twelve square miles In southern
Utah as the Bryce Oanyon National monument, within the Powell National
forest. This canyon Is declared by the United States forest service to be one of the
most unique and beautiful geological features In the United States. Photo
graph shows a remarkable view there.
President Coolidge at His Desk
The first picture to be made of Prtsident^Coolldge In the White House ex
ecutlTe offices, seated at the desk used only u short time ago by President Hard
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RATHER SPOILED THE EFFECT
Unfortunate That Proud Driver of
Car Should Have Forgotten to
Remove That Pail.
, They were talking about embarrass
ing moments at the Friday Morning
club when one fair matron remarked:
“While living In a small western
town a few years ago, my husband
purchased an automobile. Upon In
specting our garage .1 discovered a
leak in the roof and, to save the new
machine from a possible drenching, t
placed a five-gallon pail on top of It.
“Several days later I motored to
town, all puffed up with pride, un
aware that the pail was still on top
of the car, and It surely was my most
embarrassing moment when I parked
near a dairy and a kind stranger
offered to take the milk pail down for
me.”
, Feeling Was Mutual.
Billie had been a naughty boy ana
upon rising In the morning his mother
said, “Now, Billie, you were* a bad
boy yesterday and I hope you 'Will be
better today. Yesterday nobody liked
you.”
“That’s all right, mother,” said
Billie; "yesterday I didn’t like my
self.”
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