The people have no cattle, but say there are no tsetse flies: they have not been long here, _i.e._ under the present system; but a ruin on the northern peninsula or face of the entrance, built of stone and lime--Arab-fashion, and others on the north-west, show that the place has been known and used of old.

The adjacent country has large game at different water pools, and as the whole country is somewhat elevated it probably is healthy.

There is very little mangrove, but another enclosed piece of water to the south of this probably has more.

The language of the people here is Swaheli; they trade a little in gum-copal and Orchilla weed.

An agent of the Zanzibar custom-house presides over the customs, which are very small, and a jemidar acknowledging the Sultan is the chief authority; but the people are little superior to the natives whom they have displaced.