GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



miserable in the heat. Her husband was a local 

 judge. Later the wife of another judge said that 

 she had not waited for my husband to pay a morning 

 call, in uniform and sword, on hers, which is the 

 correct thing, but they called on me without ; how- 

 ever, would he, my husband, pay the call demanded 

 by etiquette on this other judge. My husband 

 said, " Certainly not, for it might be correct for the 

 members of the Zanzibar Government and other 

 Zanzibar officials to do those calls, but it was not 

 correct for an officer who was married to do so 

 on joining the mess in Zanzibar, and would the 

 lady kindly tell the judge so ! " Afterwards my 

 husband's O.C. said he was perfectly right. 



All the same, after a few days my husband 

 came to the conclusion that " Peace at any price " 

 is best in a small place, and that if such a little 

 thing pleased the young local judge he would do 

 it; we also heard that his wife was exceedingly 

 nice, and it was not her fault that she was not 

 friendly to a poor young woman cast suddenly on 

 the Island of Zanzibar. As a matter of fact I 

 believe the judge was really nice too, only he had 

 been bitten by that horrid African fly which en- 

 larges the head. 



So my husband buckled on his sword and left 

 his card, the call was returned next day, three days 

 later the wife called on me. Of course my hus- 

 band also called on the other more generous-minded 



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