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Title: Zanzibar: city, island, and coast
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: London, Tinsley brothers
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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est weather safe riding-ground is found between Zanzibar Island andthe continent. Vessels from the south making Zanzibar inthe N.E. monsoon, the trade-wind of Decemberto March, leave Europa Island to the west, andthe Comoro group and S. Juan de Nova on theeast. Keeping well in mid-channel, they headstraight for Mafiyah. They hug Point Puna,avoiding Lathams Bank,1 and they work up byKwale and the Chumbi Island. Ships from thenorth have only to run down the mid-channel,between Pemba and the continent, and then topass west of Tumbatu. Those sailing southwardfrom Zanzibar at this season pass along-shore,down the Mozambique Channel. Vessels fromthe south making Zanzibar in May to September,the height of the S.W. monsoon—the anti-N.E.trade—sail up the same passage. They must be-ware of falling to leeward ; and those that neg- 1 At Lathams Isle was found guano, which Captain Cogan,I.N., obtained permission to export. In 1847, however, it waswashed away by a Eas de Maree. :ary :ity MA USA
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ASPECT OF ZANZIBAR. 145 lect e lead and look-out are ever liable to becarried northwards to Pemba by the counter-current before mentioned, which may, however,now be a wind-current. At this season ship-mas-ters missing the mark have sometimes made 3° to4° of easting, and have preferred beating down toMafiyah and running up again, rather than facethe ridicule of appearing via the northern pass-age. Those leaving the Island in the S.W.monsoon stand north up channel, well out inE. Ion. 9° 42 to 43, beat south of Cape Del-gado, pass between the Comoro group and themainland, and thus catch the Mozambique gulf-stream. The brises solaires blow strongest offMadagascar in June and July. They fall lightin August and September. The aspect of Zanzibar from the sea is thatof coralline islands generally—a graceful, wavyoutline of softly rounded ground, and a surfaceof ochre-coloured soil, thickly clothed with foli-age alternating between the liveliest leek-greenand the sombrest laurel, the only

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