Their great argument is, "What could we do without Arab cloth ?" My answer is, "Do what you did before the Arabs came into the country." At the present rate of destruction of population, the whole country will soon be a desert.
An earthquake happened here last year, that is about the end of it or beginning of this (the crater on the Grand.

Comoro Island smoked for three months about that time); it shook all the houses and everything, but they observed no other effects.[20] No hot springs are known here.
_17th September, 1866._--We marched down from Mukate's and to about the middle of the Lakelet Pamalombe.

Mukate had no people with canoes near the usual crossing place, and he sent a messenger to see that we were fairly served.

Here we got the Manganja headmen to confess that an earthquake had happened; all the others we have inquired of have denied it; why, I cannot conceive.

The old men said that they had felt earthquakes twice, once near sunset and the next time at night--they shook everything, and were accompanied with noise, and all the fowls cackled; there was no effect on the Lake observed.