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Show CLOVE GARDENS OF ZANZIBAR. They Are the Real Beauty Spots of the Island, it Is difficult to describe In fitting languago thoclovo gardens of Zanzibar. Zanzi-bar. The "spicy, breezes" which nro bald to "blow soft o'er Ceylon's lslo" blow with equal softness and perhaps no less splclhess through Zanzibar's' beautiful clovo forests, writes E. Verne Richardson In American Syren and Shipping. Tho wholo Island abounds In richest vegetation, but tho clovo forests are Its real beauty spots. And what a grateful change tholr fragrant fra-grant shado from tho Oriental odors and genuinely bad smolls of tho stuffy streets of tho old town Itself! For Zanzlbnr Is not like an American city In tho width of Its streets nnd tho architecture of Us buildings. Thero Is scarcely a thoroughfaro In tho wholo place wldo enough to permit two vehicles ve-hicles to pass, and tho system of sanitation sani-tation is almost as prlmltlvo as thnt of tho garden of Eden; henco somo of tho smells. Fortunately tho clovo forests aro not far away. Zanzibar has no docks or wharfs. All goods aro landed or shipped by means of lighters. light-ers. Tho tidal rlso Is nbout fourteen feet and tho fall necossarlly tho samo. Vast stretches of beach aro thus loft baro at low water; henco moro smells. But, with all Its drawbacks, Zanzibar ' Is not particularly unhcalthful. It is 1 hot, vigorously, viciously hot, but still tho people, the whlto people, manngo to llvo thero In comparative comfort, and In sparo hours play golf, tennis 1 and sometimes even football. |