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DAR-ES-SALAAM.
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the waters of this landlocked haven always remain unruffled. The town and the neighbouring populous village of Mjimwema are built on an upheaved cliff, which was formerly a coral reef commanding the old marine channel now converted into an estuary.

The German officials stationed at Dar-es-Salaam are endeavouring to attract to

Fig. 97. — Dar-es-salaam.

this port a portion of the import trade which was till recently entirely centred in the roadstead of Zanzibar, and their efforts have already been attended with a certain measure of success. North of Lourenço Marques, Dar-es-Salaam is the only place on the East African seaboard where a beginning hus been made with the construction of a carriage road leading towards the interior of the continent. This great highway, which it is already proposed to convert into a railway, first traverses