Zanzibar and the East Coast of Africa [pp. 70-87]

70 7~us Far. [July
she ter say? ~Vhen it was er comin' jewrin CMebbe, that air er true word, Dick
ye war sick, I didunt say nothin'-hants Harjoe; but I know ez I seen Jim Snyder's
air fur them ex`ull see`em. I tell ye, Dick hant ev'ry time the roads air fittin' fur horHarjoe, hit haint fer women ter say every- lin', sence he was kilt in the war."
thing ez they hev knowed. Men hev ther "Hester, I haint sayin' thar haint no
ways en women hev thern." hants, mind ye-I believe nat'ally thar be
"I hev hearn ez them ken see hants e'z hants; but ef this hyar air Jim Snyder's hant,
air borned with er corl over their eyes, hit air pintedly the fust I ever seen."
Hester." Zitella Cocke.
THUS FAR.
Because my life has lain so close to thine,
Because our hearts have kept a common beat,
Because thine eyes, turned towards me frank and sweet,
Reveal sometimes thine unthought thoughts' to mine,
Think not that I, by curious design,
Or over-step of too impetuous feet,
Could desecrate thy soul's supreme retreat,
Could disregard its quivering barrier-line.
Only a simple Levite, I, who stand
On the world's side of the most holy place.
Till, as the new day glorifies the east,
One come to lift the veil with reverent hand,
And enter with thy soul's soul face to face, He whom thy God shall call to be high priest.
Elkn Burroughs.
ZANZIBAR AND THE EAS'F COAST OF AFRICA.
Owing to the circumscribed space allotted Colonies in the South, and possibly Algeria,
in our atlases to the vast continent called no separate maps exist —indeed a delineaAfrica, it is very difficult to form an ade- tion of the semi or wholly barbaric states,
quate idea of its dimensions. In Europe, (and they are many) which occupy much of
Asia, and America, both North and South, its surface will simply be impracticable for
there are certain well-known divisions into centuries to come, without taking into conwhich each of these continents is distributed, side ration the innumerable savage tribes
known respectively as republics, king- which make up the balance of the population.
doms, or empires, and as a separate map is A wonderful amount of ignorance prevails
devoted to each of these, some conception everywhere as to the greater number of these
may be arrived at of the extent of the con- states, and of course to a much more continent so divided. ~Vith regard to Africa, siderable extent with regard to the numberhowever, if you except Egypt, the British less subdivisions of the inhabitants. A book