HISTORY OF ZANZIBAR 



aded from Pemba Bay in the south to Witu in the 

 north, and Pemba Island was kept under close ob- 

 servation. However, events finally settled them- 

 selves, and Zanzibar receives annually from England 

 £6,000, being interest on the sum of £200,000 

 which Germany paid to the British Government 

 for Zanzibar, giving up the ten-mile jjiece of coast- 

 land next to the German Protectorate ; also Zanzi- 

 bar receives £11,000 from the British East African 

 Protectorate annually, as rental for the ten mile 

 strip of the coast next the British Protectorate. 



In the old days the term Sultan was not thought 

 much of by the Arabs, as nearly every chief of 

 small districts on the mainland styled himself Sul- 

 tan. The Arabs called their leader Seyyid, he was 

 their chief, their lord, not their king; but when the 

 English interfered with matters connected with the 

 government of Zanzibar, the Seyyid became more 

 solitary in his grandeur, and the other Arab chiefs 

 had less and less to say about affairs in general. 

 As a matter of fact all the members of the Sultan's 

 family are styled Seyyid, and the Sultan is called 

 by his people Es-Seyyid, the Bwana, or Master. 

 It is the English who have made the title of Sultan 

 more royal and imposing, I suppose to tickle the 

 native vanity. The Sultan is entitled to be called 

 His Highness, but not His Royal Highness. 



During Seyyid All's reign, in 1892, Zanzibar 

 was formally declared a British Protectorate, and 



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