- . . . Mr. Green says that in many of the best sections
of England, agricultural land can be bought at $50 an acre; the choicest at from $100 to $150 per acre. This statement particularly interested me because that is about the range at which land sells in the district where I live. I had always imagined that land in England sold at much higher prices than in Atchison county, Kansas, fifteen hundred miles west of the sea at New York. . . . Mr. Green says that last January, in his section of England, there were only five days without rain; last summer, he saw only fourteen bright days. There is plenty of sunshine and plenty of dry weather in Africa, but Mr. Green says he will not recommend the country to his neighbors.
Monday, March 31.—This morning a dozen guests
from the hotel, including the two travelers from Kansas,
took a boat trip of fifteen or twenty miles on the
Zambesi river above the falls. After a walk of half an
hour we embarked in a large gasoline launch, and ascended
the river until about noon, when we went ashore
on an island, and explored it until lunch was ready at
12:30. A Hindu servant, with a native helper, accompanied
us from the hotel, carrying two large hampers,
and they prepared tea, and served an excellent
lunch. . . . The Zambesi river above the falls is
a wide, rambling affair, full of islands, and so shallow
that the course of our launch was marked for several
miles. When we finally landed, it was because we
could go no further on account of a rapids. The river
