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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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like the Highlander of old, though feudally bound to follow his suzerain, requires the order of his immediate chief, and the latter, when most wanted, is uncommonly likely to rat or to revolt. The mercenaries of Zanzibar nominally receive $2 to S3 per mensem, with rations:practically, the money finds its way more or less into the pocket of the Jemadar or C. O.-The fort is here garrisoned by some 80 of these men and their negro slaves : the former are equal to double the number of Arabs in the field, and behind walls they are a match for a nation of savages. Police by day and night patrols are much wanted at Zanzibar, where every man must be his own 1 Robert. The slaves are unruly subjects; even those of the fort will commit an occasional murder, and the suburbs are still far from safe during the dark 1 It is hardly necessary to correct in these days the error of Carsten Niebuhr, who made the Belludges (Baloch) a tribe of Arabs. The Baloch mercenaries will be found further noticed in Part II. chap. vi.
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Image, Wasin Town, Zanzibar. THE FLEET. HMS ships 267 ...hours. The garrison is securely locked up, and in case of most urgent need no aid is procurable before morning. I may now offer a catalogue raisonne of the late Sayyid's fleet, which was intended to keep up the maritime prestige of his predecessors, the Yurabi Imams. The Shah Alam, a double-banked frigate of 1100 tons, carrying 50 guns (45, says M. Guillain, i. 584), was built at Mazagon in 1820, and now acts guardship, moored off Mto-ni. The Caroline (40 guns), the best of the squadron, and built at Bombay, was degraded to be a merchantman, in which category she visited Marseille (1849) : she has, however, again opened her ports after returning from Maskat. The strong and handsome Sultana was wrecked near Wasin when returning from India. The Salihi was lost in the Persian Gulf; the Sulayman Shah and the Humayun Shah, in the Gulf of Bengal. The Piedmontese, 36 guns, built at Cochin in 1836, might be re-paired at an expense of £10,000. The Victoria frigate (40), teak built in the Mazagon dockyard

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