GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



into the town by pipes, as till then the inhabitants 

 had always used the somewhat doubtful water, 

 often the drainage of swamps, which accumulated 

 in wells they dug. They would always rather get 

 water that way than put themselves to any trouble 

 to get fresh pure water. Many other useful and 

 important things were done in his reign. 



Barghash died in 1888 and was followed as Sul- 

 tan by two more of his brothers Khalifa and Ali, 

 who only reigned two years and three years respect- 

 ively. 



The former had tried to get the rule in the place 

 of Barghash, as Barghash had in his brother Majid's 

 reign, but without success, as he was carefully 

 watched by the English British consul and kept in 

 confinement. Seyyid Khalifa did his best to help 

 England in stopping the slave trade, but great diffi- 

 culties stood in the way ; one, by France refusing to 

 allow officers of the British vessels to search a dhow 

 flying the French flag. This of course led to its 

 being misused. 



Then followed a great deal of trouble, over the 

 ten-mile strip of land in German East Africa be- 

 longing to the Sultan, between the Arabs and the 

 Germans. 



Owing, too, to the continuance of slave-dealers 

 still venturing about in dhows in pursuance of the 

 trade in slaves, the Germans, English, Italians and 

 Portuguese agreed that the coast should be block- 



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