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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: University of California Libraries
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Changani Point, and supplants industry: 255 the original lagenarias. Some Kumdrs, orHindustani potters, came to Zanzibar a fewyears ago; they suffered so severely from feverthat, fancying themselves bewitched, all ranaway. CHAPTEU VI. VISIT TO THE PRINCE SATYID MAJID.—THE GO-VERNMENT OP ZANZIBAR. Zanzibar is an island of Africa, on the coast of Zanzibar,governed by a king who is a tributary to the Portuguese.Eeeces Cyclopedia. We now proceed to wait upon H. H. the Sayyid of Zanzibar and the Sawahil, who wouldbe somewhat surprised to hear that he is tribu-tary to the Portuguese. The palace lies east of, and close to, the fort.It is fronted by a wharf, and defended by a stuc-coed platform mounting eight or nine brassguns en barbette, intended more for show thanuse. The building is a kind of double-storied,white-washed barrack, about 140 feet long,roofed with dingy green-red tiles, and piercedwith a few windows jealously raised high fromthe ground; shutters painted tender-green temper
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,.ii:m.iMir... THE PALACE. 257 the sun-glare, and a few stunted, wind-wrungtrees beautify the base. Seaward there is a ve-randah, in which levees are held, and behind itare stables and sundry outhouses, an oratoryand a graveyard, where runaway slaves, chainedtogether by the neck, lie in the shade. In thisoratory, as in other mosques, are performed theprayers of the two Great Festivals which, duringthe late princes life, were recited at the Mto-ni Cascine. Here, too, is thelarge, gable-endedhouse commenced in his elder age by the enter-prising Sayyid Said, and built, it is said, after themodel of the Dutch factory at Bander Abbas. Itwas intended for levees, and for a hall of plea-sure. Unhappily, a large chandelier droppedfrom the ceiling, seventy masons were crushedby a falling wall; and other inauspicious omensmade men predict that the prince would neverenter the Akhir el Zaman (End of Time). Ithas since been shut up, like one of our ghost-haunted houses, which it not a little resemb

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