The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

—470 SOUTH AND EAST AFRICA.on this island, which is the most fertile of the Comoro group, yielding good crops,especially of sugar. Its Arab sultan resides at Msamudu, called also Anjuan, asort of mediaeval fortified town situated on the north-west side, and with a populationof nearly four thousand.Moheli (Jloa/i), smallest of the Comoros, is also very ferlilo and abundantlyFig. Mo.Mayoite.Scale 1 : 460,000.watered. Its cocoauut, coffee, sugar, vanilla and clove plantations, cliicfly ownedby Engli.sh capitalists, form a broad verdant zone round about the capital, Fomboiii.Great Comoro {Ngaziya), although the largestand most populous member ofthe archipelago, is little cultivated and seldom Aasited by traders, owing to theabsence of water and good havens. The sultan resides at Jfiiroiii, a small placesituated on a creek on the south-west coast.