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PART II TO BARINGO AND MOUNT KENYA " Let it be virtuous to be
obstinate." Coriolanus, v. 3. CHAPTER IV AT MOMBASA?A SECOND START
" Kongowea ya mvumo, maangavu maji male Haitoi lililomo. Gongwa
isingenyemele Msiotambua ndumo na utambaji wa kale." Verses of
Muyaha on Mombasa, collected ky Rev. W. E. Taylor. (Mombasa roars
like the wind through the fan-palm, Surf breaks o'er its reefs in
calm as at spring tide; It ever is sending forth, yet ne'er has it
fail'd, Think not 'twill be peaceful as you hear not its seething,
For you know not its war-cries, nor its story of old.) THE town of
Mombasa is situated on an island, which, owing to the healthiness
of its climate, the fertility of the neighbouring country, the
convenience of its harbours, and the strength of its position, has
exercised an influence on East African history out of all
proportion to its size. The town stands on the edge of a cliff on
the northern shore; to the east stretches a plateau of coral rock,
healthy and dry, and open to the bracing breezes from the sea. To
the west the country is richly wooded and fertile, but in places
swampy and malarious, for the red sands of which it is composed
yield a soil very different from that formed from the coral rock.
To the north and south of the island are the harbours of Mombasa
and Kilindini, which, with the exception only of Delagoa Bay, are
admittedly the finest on the eastern coast of Africa. A shallow
creek, which can be forded at low tide, separates the island from a
wide tract of rich food-bearing country, which now, as at the visit
of Ibn Batuta in the fourteenth century, forms the granary for the
inhabitants of the island. With all these advantages, it is not
surprising thatMombasa has long been recognised as occupying one of
the most important...
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