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SOUTH AND EAST AFRICA.
The chief resting-place in the midst of this wilderness is the village of Jue-la-Mkoa, or the "Round Hlill," 0 called from the syenite eminence over 120 feet high, at the foot of which are clustered a few native cabins.
Fig. 99. — Oceanic and landward coasts of Pemba compared.
Zanzibar and Mafia.
The island of Zanzibar, centre of the commercial activity and of the religious propaganda radiating from the seaboard towards the interior of East Africa, is of itself of very small extent. But by its geological formation it is connected with
