GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



man now, still lives there, unless he has very re- 

 cently died. He is the real heir to the Sultanate 

 of Zanzibar. 



There is a romance attached to Said's daughter 

 Salme. Her house was near that of the firm of 

 Oswald & Co., and one of their employees fell in 

 love with her, seeing her from his window through 

 hers, as the streets are so narrow. He got her to 

 run away with him, but life was so dangerous for 

 her in his company, from the fury of her relatives, 

 that the young couple had to escape in a British 

 war-ship, the High-Flyer, to Aden. The German 

 husband is now dead, but Salme was and still may 

 be, living in Damascus. She wrote a book of her life, 

 which must have been interesting, for among other 

 things it was she, with her sister Khole, who, living 

 just behind Barghash's house, helped him with con- 

 siderable pluck to escape, when he was kept in 

 confinement before being sent to India. 



Seyyid Majid bin Said only reigned for fourteen 

 years ; soon after the commencement Captain 

 Hamerton, the British consul, died from the wear- 

 ing results of the climate. He became too weak 

 in energy to go back to England, losing at the 

 same time his will to move away from the island. 



Such is the effect Zanzibar seems to have on 

 people if they stay too long. Nervous energy goes 

 very soon. 



Nothing of great importance to Zanzibar oc- 



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