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features of this African scenery, but of course common to 

 other regions also. 



On returning at the close of the day, the Consul paid 

 his respects to the Sultan at the Matony paUice, and 

 thanked him for the pleasure he had enjoyed. His High- 

 ness expressed satisfaction and added that he had given 

 orders to have a horse in readiness for the Consul when- 

 ever he would ride, and also a guide to show him the most 

 charming rides into the country. 



On Jan. 11, 1840, Mr. Waters sailed from Zanzibar for 

 a visit home in the Barque "Cavalier" of which his brother 

 John was master. He had declined the Sultan's offer of 

 a passage in a ship he was despatching to America. He 

 arrived May 7, and spent four months in visiting friends 

 in various parts of the country. He became a member of 

 the East India Marine Society, Sept., 1840. He sailed 

 again by the same vessel on her return voyage, Sept. 11, 

 this time as the commercial agent of David Pingree, reach- 

 ing his post, Jan. 8, 1841, and meeting here his brother 

 William arrived a month before at Zanzibar by the Arab 

 ship "Sultana." At the close of his official career he left 

 Zanzibar for Bombay in October, 1844, and reached home 

 by the overland route early in 1845, establishing himself 

 for life soon after at the fine old homestead farm, which, 

 from an early day and under many owners, had crowned 

 the sightly and commanding eminence in North Beverly 

 known as Cherry Hill.^ 



This estate of one hundred and fift}' or more acres, some 

 of it lying on ground so high as to overlook the southern 

 portion of Essex County, and some of it bordering on 

 WenhamPond, came into his hands in the spring of 1846 

 by purchase from Capt. Thomas Holmes of Salem, and 



I'riiis was one of the sites which the State sought to purchase at the time of lo- 

 cating the Insane Asylum now placed on Hawthorne Hill in Dauvers. 



