GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



grandmother being a native. This taint, curiously 

 enough, showed remarkably in his features, but he 

 had the manners and grace for which Arabs are 

 always noted. During his residence in Central 

 Africa he acted as guide, and helped in other ways^ 

 three great explorers, namely, Stanley, Cameron, 

 and Wissmann, and always showed himself most 

 friendly to all Europeans. After his stirring and 

 adventurous life, having amassed a large fortune, 

 he settled for the rest of his life in Zanzibar ; the 

 lands over which he had once held undisputed 

 sway except for continual native risings, passed to 

 Germany and Belgium. At his death his hundreds 

 of slaves became free ; the women who are now the 

 local water-carriers were originally his slaves or 

 members of his harem, claiming only on their death 

 one rupee for a shroud to be buried in from the 

 executive lawyer of Tippoo Tib's estate. 



Their business is likely to be stopped, however, 

 as at the present time plans for laying on water 

 in pipes in all the houses are under discussion. 



The heat was simply appalling when we arrived 

 in Zanzibar, January being the hottest month. I 

 left all my big cases with an agent ; so went rather 

 short of clothes in the hotel, for my friends had 

 packed all my bodices in my small trunks, but 

 the skirts lay in one of the big ones at the agent's. 

 I promptly developed every sort of heat bump and 

 spot caused by over-heated blood, also prickly heat, 



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