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Some interesting people came on board here, a Dr.
and wife, young, who had come from Uganda. He had
been Dr. in a sleeping sickness camp. The men had been
removed from the region of the tsetse fly, but cures have not
been satisfactory. They were going to England for a six
months rest and will then return. Another man has written
a book on the Nyassa land. A man, wife and child were
returning to west Lake Nyassa from their vacation. He is
on a rubber plantation. There are trees which exude the
juice which becomes rubber when exposed to the air and there
are also vines, which put out a juice when cut. The Natives
rub this on their skin where it quickly dries. They rub
it off then, and roll it into balls, in which form it is sent
to market. These people would travel a month before reaching
their home. They got off a chinde. They would travel by boat up
the Zambesi, then the Shire and then overland by [ham?]-
[mouk?] [insertion illegible] Lake. These people who come on at Mombasa travelled
long distances by [hammouk?], each person having
a company of 16, four serving at a time.

Two days later we passed C. Guadafui [Guardafui], a
cruel, bold forbidding rock with no vegetation and a
long stretch of yellow sand upon its table top. Here
a boat from Australia, bound for England had been
wrecked in fog a month ago. One boat of passengers
was lost, but all the others were picked up. Among
those lost was the wife of the young deck steward.
His pale grief stricken face as we passed the spot
won the sympathy of all. The Natives on the Somali