ZANZIBAR 



I heard that the crows were introduced by the 

 Indians to act as scavengers, and so to help keep 

 the place healthy, by gobbling up the festering 

 rubbish that otherwise would harbour and breed all 

 sorts of horrors. Wherever one finds the Indian 

 in Africa, he appears so dirty ; in a working silver 

 shop, one day, through the dark inner doorway a 

 cow was to be seen munching her evening meal, as 

 we inquired the price of some silver article. Dirty 

 Indian men and women squat patiently inside their 

 cupboard-like shops ; some with sweets, tobacco, 

 cigarettes, matches, and rice and other grain cheer- 

 fully mixed with an assortment of wearing apparel, 

 dear to the heart of a native. In one of the little 

 narrow streets in the bazaar are seen a number of 

 china shops, where is sold the Dutch earthen- 

 ware of brilliant colouring, imported for the Arab 

 and Swahili ; then another street comprises shops 

 selling pottery, little incense burners, and the 

 earthen pitchers or carafes for water, generally 

 mixed up with other stores. Then one passes 

 through another street of sellers of more wearing 

 apparel, kanzus, kangas, beads, common jewellery 

 and vests, also lace curtains and stuffs of all colours 

 sold by the yard. 



The furniture shops are generally blocked to- 

 gether, what little furniture there is to be had be- 

 ing bad. We had to buy what furniture we could, 

 not what we would, although we expected to 



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