Glimpses of East Africa and Zanzibar. By Ethel Younghusband. (John
Long. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Younghusband has many instructive things to tell us about East Africa and its inhabitants, about English life out there, and about sport, sure to occupy considerable space where the English come in. She tells us also something about the past of Zanzibar, and a very interesting past it is. And she has something to say about the natural history of the locality ; "pariah dogs—lemurs—repulsive insects—domestic animals" is the heading. There is a quite pathetic story about a lemur which the author, who describes herself as "a refuge for other people's pots," received from a friend. She was told that it was not right to keep a creature which could not have proper exercise, and so took it for a long drive and left it in a bush, but was "haunted all the way home by its reproachful eyes." One thing we generally find in books of this kind,—a War Office blunder. Captain Younghusband's regiment was at Mazerus, but had to be moved on account of sickness among officers and men. " It was against a good deal of local and medical advice that those in authority picked out Mazerus as a suitable spot for a camp; but, as is often tho case, no notice was taken of that advice ; the lines were built, and officers quarters put up, and then it was found to be an impossible place to live in." Natives and Indians had always shunned it, and there was lead in the water.
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